The siblings are the great-grandchildren of Generoso Pope — a construction tycoon whose materials helped build the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center.
Three siblings are fighting over control of their wealthy family’s New York foundation — with two claiming their brother looted millions from the non-profit for his personal gain, new court papers show.
Decades later, great-grandchildren Marie Thérèse Pope, 56, and Ted Pope, 58, claim their brother David Anthony Pope convinced his grandmother to make him CEO and president of the foundation around 2006, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Friday. The suit also claimed David pushed brother Ted out of the foundation in 2007 and removed his sister as an officer by 2010, and when David assumed power, the foundation had $32 million, but by 2019 only $4 million was left.
The siblings say he gave his wife and sons no-show jobs in the foundations and gave grants to his children’s schools — breaking foundation rules.But David changed course for the foundation grants and “began funding to organizations in which [he], his immediate family members, and his close friends had a significant financial or other interest,” the suit claims.
The foundation’s rules barred its funds from being used to benefit members of its leadership and their families. In total the WICC received $6.5 million from the foundation from 2005 to 2019 and during that time David was receiving roughly $50,000 annually from WICC for one hour of work a week — on top of his salary from the foundation, the suit claims.David gave his wife and two sons jobs in the foundation getting paid “hundreds of thousands of dollars” for doing “little to no work,” the court documents allege.
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