A Las Vegas nonprofit, Project REAL, is grappling with internal upheaval after its former executive director, Thomas Kovach Jr., was charged with 19 counts of theft relating to the diversion of funds from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Foundation to Project REAL. According to a statement obtained by 8 News Now, Kovach allegedly moved almost $350,000 into Project REAL and then paid himself $182,000 of those funds.