Ex-MCHS assistant baseball coach sentenced for embezzlement

An ex-Morgan City High School baseball assistant coach who now is the head baseball coach at Marksville High School was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days in prison and ordered to perform 600 hours of community service for embezzling roughly $90,000 from an Iberia Par-ish nonprofit, according to The Advocate.
Tim Daigle, 33, who worked with the Morgan City High School baseball team as an assistant coach this past season and helped lead the team through the remainder of the school year and the summer base-ball season after the resignation of head coach Tim Vidos, pleaded guilty in September to a federal fraud charge involving the taking of federally supported loans that Southern Mutual Help Association was overseeing to help low-income families repair their homes.
Daigle, a Central Catholic High alum who had played college baseball at Nicholls State University, had sought probation “blaming a series of poor decisions on an addiction to the prescription stimulant Vyvanse and the lure of the casino,” the newspaper reported.
“Somewhere along the line, with all the Vyvanse and the gambling, I got myself into a bind,” Daigle was quoted by the newspaper as saying. “... I wish I could take it back, but I can’t.”
Daigle, who worked as a loan officer for SMHA, falsi-fied paperwork to establish four fraudulent home repair loans from 2013 to 2014, according to the report. He had the money paid to a friend’s construction compa-ny, who then returned the money to Daigle, the newspaper reported.
Daigle’s attorney, Brett Grayson, said with a prison term, it would be hard for Daigle to keep his job and pay restitution. Daigle said he now thinks he has his substance abuse and gambling problems in order, according to The Advocate.
Daigle will be allowed to delay reporting to federal prison until June 1, so he can finish the school year.