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William Aramony was 59 when he and Lori Villasor began their affair. She was not quite 18. Back then, in December 1986, Villasor was still new to Alexandria, Virginia, up from Florida, just out of high school, not quite knowing what to do with her life. Villasor, Aramony would later say, "comes from a poverty background. I don't want her to slip back into it." And, according to a federal grand jury, he went out of his way to make certain she didn't. Last week details emerged about how Aramony, the former president of United Way of America...
Aramony denied the charges, as he had when suspicions were raised as early ! as 1990, after employees at U.W.A. headquarters in Alexandria began gossiping about the trips Aramony would take with Villasor. Anonymous letters on U.W.A. stationery reached members of the charity's executive committee, a group led by Edward Brennan, chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. By 1991 inquiries by the Washington Post may have prompted the U.W.A. board to deepen its investigation and to discover how Aramony's personal expenses were passed off as company expenditures...
Among those mentioned in the indictment was Rina Duncan, an aide to Aramony. The indictment states that Aramony and Duncan had a "personal relationship" and that Villasor said she would leave Aramony unless Duncan took a job elsewhere. Aramony found work for Duncan at Partnership Umbrella, the U.W.A. spin-off company that he would use to fund his affair with Villasor. As for Villasor, the exhaustive account of her relationship with Aramony suggests that she too cooperated with the grand jury. Her affair with Aramony ended two years...
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