The former executive director of a Bay Area boxing gym who admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars — including a $50,000 donation from the Curry family — was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday.
Howard Solomon, who from 2017 to 2021 ran the East Oakland Boxing Association, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Solomon, 38, pleaded guilty in April to one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion for the 2018 tax year.
The judge also ordered him to pay $549,133 in restitution to the organization and $287,185 to the Internal Revenue Service for funds he did not disclose as income and expenses he misstated. Prosecutors say Solomon stole at least $549,000 from his former employer, a nonprofit that offers after-school and summer programming to children and families in the East Oakland neighborhood, as well as boxing coaching and other supportive opportunities…