Ex-Treasurer Charged With Embezzling $400K From Football Booster Club

A former treasurer for an Aliso Niguel High School football booster club in Orange County, California, has been arrested on federal charges alleging she embezzled more than $400,000 from the nonprofit organization to pay for personal expenses, including her home mortgage. Julie Hanway Molina, 56, of Aliso Viejo, was taken into custody Thursday at her home and charged with four counts of wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Her initial court appearance was scheduled for later Thursday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana. A federal grand jury returned an indictment on September 2 alleging that Molina executed a scheme to defraud the booster club between 2023 and November 2025. Prosecutors say she diverted approximately $411,761 from the organization's bank account for her own use. According to the indictment, Molina used the misappropriated funds to pay her delinquent home mortgage and credit card bills. In one specific transaction in June 2023, she allegedly wired approximately $131,523 from the booster club's bank account in Laguna Hills through Federal Reserve facilities in New Jersey and Texas to an account in Santa Ana.