A head coach at Chaska High School was charged on Wednesday for stealing from Chaska High School.
Phil Link was hired by Chaska last year to turn the team around. Many believe he did his job by motivating the players. Link resigned at the end of January as an investigation into wrongdoing hovered over his head.
He was charged with theft by swindle.
The Carver County attorney saying it all stems from a summer football camp he ran in 2009 in Chaska.
During that camp, Coach Link incurred expenses that were to be reimbursed to him. But according to the complaint, he submitted billings to two different places, the school district and the Chaska touchdown club. He was allegedly double dipping.
Superintendent David Jennings says the school acted as the middle man, collecting the money for the camp from the families of the players, then turned around and reimbursed link without knowledge.
He was apparently getting the money elsewhere on top of the expenses; the complaint says Link was to use money given to him to pay his assistant coaches.
It alleges he was to dish out $4,200 instead only paying out $3,450, which means he allegedly kept $750 for himself.
