Boss who audited his own charity repays part of fee

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 12 November 2007

The former boss of Scottish children's cancer charity Moonbeams has averted the threat of legal action against him by repaying a "substantial proportion" of the £93,000 fees he received for auditing its accounts.

Gary Easton, who also served for a time as Moonbeams’ secretary and director, was ordered to repay the money after the charity was wound up in 2003 by the Scottish Charities Office, the predecessor to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. The charity’s accounts were frozen by the courts...