Foster Care Agency Directors Charged With Embezzlement

CSJ Kidogo, the executive director of the nonprofit Little People’s World, and his wife, Hitaji Kidogo, are charged with embezzling more than $460,000 from the taxpayer-funded nonprofit agency hired by Los Angeles County to help abused and neglected foster children, the district attorney’s office announced on Thursday. A county audit in 2011 concluded that the couple had used agency funds to purchase real estate, personal vacations, and to pay themselves collective salaries totaling $269,000, the Los Angeles Times reports.