A former softball club president has been sentenced to seven months home detention after misusing tens of thousands of dollars of fraudulently obtained grant funding.
Lee Keating, a former president and club captain of Kapiti Softball Club was today sentenced for the manipulation and misuse of grant funding from several gaming machine societies.
Keating pleaded guilty and was convicted on six charges under the Crimes Act involving dishonestly using a document and theft in a trusted relationship.
The Department of Internal Affairs told the Porirua District Court that between 2007 and 2011 Keating dishonestly obtained grant funding for his softball club and the Central Regional Baseball Association.
The Association was established by Keating and a colleague but it was abandoned before it was up and running.