A CROOKED charity boss bragged her career was built on “authenticity and integrity” — while she was nicking £85,000. Lindsay MacCallum, 61, made the brass-necked boast just months before she owned up to embezzling cash from a foundation set up in memory of her best pal’s daughter. 6 Crooked MacCallum stole from the charity to fund her luxury lifestyle 6 The callous mum-of-two was living it up with two holiday homes in Spain 6 She is currently behind bars, waiting to be sentenced Credit: Getty 6 MacCallum boasted on a podcast about her 'honesty' Credit: Getty And we can reveal the callous mum of two was at the same time also living the high life with two holiday homes in Spain and a third in the north of Scotland .
MacCallum, of Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, is currently behind bars waiting to be sentenced after she pled guilty to fraud last Tuesday. She was nailed after confessing to Rainbow Valley co-founder Angela MacVicar in August 2022 that she’d stolen donations. But in a podcast interview in January of that year told of her ‘honesty’ and ‘life of service’ to the third sector.
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