Alston faces six additional criminal charges

Dave Aronberg, Palm Beach County State Attorney

Corey L. Alston, who remains listed as a member of the FAMU Foundation Board of Directions,
continues to rack up more criminal charges.

Back on December 17, 2012, Alston turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail and was booked on a grand theft charge. Prosecutors accused him of receiving an illegal payment of $25,139 payment from South Bay while he was its city manager.

Dave Aronberg (pictured), state attorney for the 15th Judicial Circuit, announced additional criminal charges against Alston in early August. According to the Palm Beach Post, Alston “is facing four additional counts of grand theft, one count of grand theft over $20,000 and one count of aggravated white-collar crime, according to an amended criminal complaint released by the state attorney’s office.”

The new charges follow an audit by the Palm Beach County inspector general that questioned $306,377 in spending that took place during Alston’s tenure as the South Bay city manager. South Bay is a poverty-stricken, majority-black rural town of 4,500 people.

Alston stepped down from the city manager position on February 15 after his arrest on the first grand theft charge. He was in the middle of a two year term as chairman of the FAMU Foundation, but is no longer serving in that leadership office although he remains on the board.

A May 12 editorial by the Palm Beach Post said that that Alston “had the makings of the worst kind of thief” and “the full extent of his corruption only now becoming fully known.”