Former CEO Donise Warren, the one-time head honcho of two Inland Empire nonprofits, is in hot water after her arrest for allegedly funneling more than $225,000 of federal grant money into her own pockets – dropping a chunk on her wedding and a sprinkle into cryptocurrency, as per a recent indictment.

Warren, 51, led both the Citadel Community Development Corporation and the Citadel Community Care Facility, organizations that claimed to aid those on society's fringes with housing and career support, this all unraveled when it emerged she may have been helping herself to the funds for a lavish wedding and some crypto trading, according to the indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice released on May 7.

The former executive was slapped with 30 felony counts related to the embezzlement, facing a potential decade in federal prison for each count if found guilty, court documents pointed out her indictment came down from a grand jury on May 1, with the allegations saying the money mismanagement ran from March 2016 through to February 2023.

Warren, who entered a not guilty plea and got out on a $75,000 bond, is accused of swiping approximately $101,000 to splurge on personal extravagances including her wedding which apparently wasn't cheap, and also a hefty $25,000 payment to her spouse's credit card – these tidbits coming from court filings pulled by the U.S. Attorney's Office which is now spearheading the case against her.

The legal skirmish is set for July while Warren dangles in legal limbo. The feds, including the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, worked together to bring the allegations to light, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Cory L. Burleson out of Riverside taking point on the prosecution.