American Falls Housing Authority
Outcome
Former American Falls Housing Authority Executive Director Bruce Hauber, 72, was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months of home detention, and ordered to pay $79,000 in restitution, after embezzling $129,022 in unauthorized personal expenses charged to housing authority credit cards over four years.
Details
American Falls Housing Authority — Executive Director Embezzlement (2019–2023)
Outcome: Bruce Hauber, 72, former Executive Director of the American Falls Housing Authority (AFHA), was sentenced to five years of probation and eight months of home detention, and ordered to pay $79,000 in restitution, for embezzling $129,022.38 from the federally funded housing authority through unauthorized personal credit card charges.
Between spring 2019 and 2023, Hauber served as Executive Director of AFHA and was responsible for paying bills, purchasing supplies, collecting rent, and managing bank accounts. Beginning in spring 2019, he began making purchases on AFHA credit cards for unauthorized personal expenses — including restaurant meals, airplane tickets, home utility payments, medical expenses, and purchases at retail stores.
To conceal the embezzlement, Hauber wrote fictitious checks to vendors and entered those fabricated transactions into AFHA's internal accounting system, creating false records designed to obscure the personal charges. Total unauthorized personal expenses over the four-year period were $129,022.38.
Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye sentenced Hauber in April 2025 to five years of probation (with eight months of home detention with location monitoring as a condition) and ordered him to pay $79,000 in restitution. The case was investigated by HUD's Office of Inspector General and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Idaho.
Primary Source: American Falls Housing Authority Executive Director Sentenced for Embezzlement
How Crucible Prevents This
Crucible's expense category review hook would have flagged personal-use charges (meals, airline tickets, home utilities, medical expenses, retail purchases) appearing on organizational credit cards assigned to government program accounts. A credit card statement audit control requiring receipts matched to approved organizational purposes would have detected misuse within the first billing cycle. Crucible's fictitious vendor detection hook would have surfaced the false checks Hauber wrote to non-existent vendors to conceal his thefts.
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