Wednesday, August 19, 2009

In hot water

Talk about getting soaked.

The word at the Suburban Swim Club – what’s left of it – this morning is betrayal.

That’s what they feel was done to them by the man hired to be the manager and coach at the facility.

You might say Jose Sotillo is in hot water. Yesterday he was charged with ripping off the swim club – which produced Olympic gold medalist Brendan Hansen – to the tune of more than $100,000.

It’s the latest in a seemingly never-ending series of businesses that have been savaged – not by the tanking economy – but by their own employees.

Suburban saw its electricity shut off. The facility is now closed. The club is trying to reorganize. Right now they’re operating out of Swarthmore College. The building off Providence Road in Newtown Square is in foreclosure.

All because, according to the charges, because one man could not keep his hands out of the till.

Yes, Jose Sotillo is in some serious hot water. Unfortunately, he managed to sink a proud, legendary local swim club in the process.

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