2 Former Catholic Memorial High Employees Charged With Theft

WAUKESHA, WI—Two former school employees have been charged with defrauding a private high school out of a large amount of money, according to court records.

Kevin Heaney, 67, of Wild Rose, and his son Bryan Heaney, 40, of Germantown, are accused of scamming Catholic Memorial High School by setting up companies to charge the school for work they were already employed to do.

Kevin Heaney was charged Nov. 20 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with five felonies:

• Theft of more than $10,000 by false representation; theft of more than $10,000 by false representation, as party to a crime; two counts of theft of more than $100,000 by false representation, as party to a crime; and theft of $5,000 to $10,000 by false representation, as party to a crime, online court records said.

Bryan Heaney was charged with three felonies:

• Two counts of theft of more than $100,000 by false representation, as party to a crime; and theft of more than $10,000 by false representation, as party to a crime, online court records said.

Both men were released on a $50,000 signature bond. They are scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 3, according to online court records.

According to a criminal complaint, Kevin Heaney was employed at Catholic Memorial High School as director of the school’s IT department. Bryan Heaney worked at the school as his father’s assistant, the complaint said.

A routine audit at the school in 2019 revealed invoices of three suspicious businesses, the complaint said. One of the business was registered to Kevin Heaney and another one was registered to Bryan Heaney, the complaint said. The third business was registered to another Heaney relative, the complaint said.

The complaint said the school paid more than $429,000 to one of the accounts starting in 2014, with those invoices going to Kevin Heaney. Those charges included monthly network infrastructure maintenance and proactive malware defense solutions, the complaint said.

The school already was paying Microsoft, Wiscnet and Network Solutions for those services, the complaint said.

The school was notified police after an internal investigation. Both men were terminated by Catholic Memorial in September 2019.