Stacie LaRiccia, 40, was charged with theft by deception after the proceeds disappeared. The fundraiser was to pay the medical bills of Michael Fording, principal of Brush High School in Cleveland, and cancer research at University Hospital. Instead she allegedly spent it on food and entertainment, according to detectives who examined her financial records. Fording died on November 26, just weeks after the fundraiser was held on his beloved school's oval on October 21.