THE DAILY OUTRAGE: No, no. It’s not embezzling. We’re just ‘going in a different direction’ with these funds.

WHAT: The agency’s former CEO, Nancy Reich, misused approximately $100,000 in state and federal funds. The money bought wine, flowers, home appliances, massages and golf club memberships.

WHY IT’S AN OUTRAGE: Two of ComLinks’s major duties are to intervene in situations of domestic violence and to fund low-income housing. Reich diverted funding from these critical-need areas to finance a luxurious lifestyle.

WHERE TO VENT: Call the Franklin County Courthouse at 518-483-6768 and insist that officials there comply with District Attorney Derek P. Champagne’s request for a special prosecutor to investigate the case.

Compiled by Anna Dorminey, an Examiner intern through the National Journalism Center