“This is not a happy day for us,” Cousins said in a written statement. “Our mission is to build ‘girls of courage, confidence and character’ and this clearly was an issue of character that we could not over look.”

Ackley laid out a series of embezzlements that centered on bogus hotel costs, treatments at spas, meals, Amtrak and airline tickets, professional baseball games and other expenses around the country that were billed to Carne’s Scout-issued credit card.

Ackley said virtually all of the expenses were attributed to outreach efforts to Scout leaders in other communities but that investigators were able to show the meetings rarely took place. Many of the expenses were payments that benefitted her own family members, not other Scout leaders or the organization as a whole, Ackley said in court.

A stay at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, for instance, rang up a $905.68 tab. There was Calphalon cookware that cost $350 and was supposedly used in the Scouts’ Mechanicville headquarters but could not be found there.