Here is a news story about a school official and his alleged theft from the chess club:

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=596&sid=1284217

I still cannot believe what I am reading from this story. A school official stealing from a chess club, you must be kidding me?! That is low! If I were a parent or one of the kids in the chess club I would be raged from this. Even as a reader of the story I am pretty angry with this.

School officials should be supporting and encouraging the kids with the game of chess, not using the chess club for their own greed!

From the linked story: "charges of stealing $30,000" and "Students in the school's chess club were selling candy and hot dogs to raise money"

Who are they selling hot dogs to, Kobayashi? That's one heck of a lot of weiners!

Actually, most of the money was from donations. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that $70,000 was donated to a chess club. I've never heard of chess clubs with so much money. 

That's a lot of washed cars and cut lawns. 

Heh I'm surprised that you're surprised  Matt... welcome to the world we live in.  Where the philosophy is if you can get away with it, do it.