Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Glenda Touchtone Nolan, 57, was arrested yesterday and charged with grand theft after allegedly arranging for her husband and daughter to be employed by St. Patrick Interparish School, overpaying them by about $20k, and purchasing over $25k in items from Amazon for her personal use on the school’s account.

Nolan was the school’s Financial Manager for about 14 years until her termination in 2022; her responsibilities included payroll and managing the school’s checking and credit accounts. She allegedly arranged for her daughter to be employed at the school between August 2021 and March 2022, and she arranged for her husband to be employed at the school between May 2022 and July 2022 [editor’s note: this is probably an error in the arrest report (although it appears twice) and should be July 2023; the school declined to clarify whether the arrest report was correct because it is still an “ongoing investigation”].

The financial irregularities came to light in July 2023 when a safety patrol employee reported to the principal that Nolan had called her into her office and told her she would be getting a $1,500 “stipend” for safety; the employee thought this was “strange.” The principal became curious and looked back through the employee pay stubs, reportedly finding multiple irregularities on the pay stubs for Nolan’s daughter and husband.

During the eight months of Nolan’s daughter’s employment, the principal reported, she should have made $11,830 with her hourly wage, but her pay stubs show unauthorized payments for overtime, bereavement, bonus, professional development, sick time, and vacation time, adding up to $7,792 more than her authorized pay.

The principal reportedly told a Gainesville Police Department officer that Nolan had asked him to hire her husband; he said he thought the request was unusual because her husband was coming from a job with a six-figure salary and would work at the school for “just above minimum wage.” The principal said Nolan told him her husband was very stressed at his previous job. The principal reportedly told GPD that Nolan’s husband should have made $28,521 while employed at the school, but his pay stub also had unauthorized payments for overtime, bonus, other earnings, personal time, stipends, and vacation time, adding up to about $12,000 in unauthorized pay.

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The officer wrote that the school believes Nolan offered $1,500 to the other employee “to make it appear that other safety patrol received the same pay” as her daughter.

Nolan and her husband were both fired from the school in late July 2023 [the arrest report says Nolan’s husband was fired in July 2022 but also that they were both fired when the theft was discovered in July 2023, so that date is likely an error]; Nolan’s daughter reportedly resigned in March 2022.

The principal then checked other accounts and found large payments to Amazon; he pulled up the Amazon purchase history and reportedly found many big-ticket items that had been shipped to Nolan’s home between April 2020 and October 2022. The list included two Macbook Pros, an iPad Pro, a gaming monitor, a 43″ Samsung TV, two Nintendo Switches, over $8,000 in gift cards, clothing, furniture, and other household items. The unauthorized purchases came to $25,962.48.

When the principal asked Nolan about the purchases, she reportedly said it was easier to have them delivered to her house and then bring them to the school, but the principal said she never brought the items to the school and that legitimate purchases were routinely delivered to the school.

Nolan has no criminal history; her bail was set at $20,000 by Judge James Colaw on the arrest warrant, with a notation that she has ties to the community.

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