SAN FRANCISCO — The former director of a social justice charity was sentenced to just over three years in prison on Tuesday for embezzling $2.5 million from friends and supporters — even as the organization he ran was pillaged by a much larger investment fraud scheme.

The sentencing culminates a bizarre saga of greed and betrayal that saw the destruction of the 40-year-old Vanguard Public Foundation and the evaporation of an estimated $30 million.

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