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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WATCHDOG: SCHOOL INSIDERS HAVE STOLEN NEARLY $71
MILLION IN FRAUD SCHEMES

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Fraud is costing America’s schools millions of dollars, and many of
the perpetrators are not outsiders—they are the officials and
employees entrusted with running the nation’s public education
system. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has some shocking details
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> As the state of public education in the U.S. sinks to a historic low
> with consistent declines in math and reading scores, those hired by
> local governments to run the nation’s failing elementary, middle
> and high school campuses commit tens of millions of dollars in
> fraud. They include state and district superintendents, high-ranking
> school officials and lower level staff as well as charter school
> administrators. In the last five years alone, the public servants
> charged with educating children have operated at least 130
> fraudulent schemes that have robbed schools of nearly $71 million. A
> new audit
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> released by the Department of Education Inspector General (IG) calls
> them “bad actors” who were mostly exposed via a hotline portal
> operated by the watchdog. The probe resulted in 98 criminal and
> civil cases, 74 suspensions and 13 administrative actions.
> “Individuals who commit K–12 fraud frequently operate within the
> school system itself,” according to the Education watchdog.
> “These perpetrators have included State Superintendents of
> Education, charter school leaders, district superintendents and
> other high-ranking school officials, and school employees at all
> levels, as well as school vendors.”
>
> Created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, the Department of Education (ED) is
> legally responsible for administering more than 100 programs and
> distributing billions of dollars annually to state and local
> education agencies, schools, organizations, and other entities that
> support students nationwide. However, the report says criminals
> target these programs each year, including special education,
> vocational rehabilitation, and Title I funds for school districts
> serving low-income families. Investigators found that these “bad
> actors”—insiders at taxpayer-funded schools across the
> country—abuse ED programs and intentionally misuse or embezzle
> funds meant to help students, schools, and teachers. Detecting the
> fraud is especially difficult because K–12 funding is
> decentralized across thousands of independent school districts
> around the country. Most federal education funds flow to state
> education entities, which then distribute money to local agencies,
> school districts, and individual schools. “Federal dollars are
> often blended with State and local funds and tracked through
> localized bookkeeping practices—which makes oversight more
> complex,” the new report reveals.
>
> Evidently, this is why the ED watchdog relies heavily on complaints
> from individuals within school systems. That means the problem is
> surely much worse than the cases documented in the recently
> published report, which covers fiscal years 2020 through 2025.
> Investigations fell primarily within five categories: charter school
> fraud, public corruption, illicit schemes involving programs
> authorized under a decades-old law (Elementary and Secondary
> Education Act—ESEA) to provide disadvantaged students with a
> quality education, tutoring and academic support program fraud as
> well as scams involving emergency relief programs. The cases
> involving charter schools, which are publicly funded with no
> oversight, include embezzlement, inflated student enrollment
> numbers, ghost students or staff and fake invoicing schemes. Public
> corruption cases, which include abuse of position by school
> officials or employees for personal gain, uncovered bribery and
> kickback schemes, irregularities in contract awards and criminal
> conflicts of interest.
>
> Embezzlement, misuse of funds and false representation were the key
> offenses committed by public officials running school programs
> funded under ESEA, which delivers financial assistance to districts
> and campuses that serve children from low-income families. Only six
> percent of the stolen money has been recovered, however.
> Taxpayer-funded tutoring and academic support programs for primarily
> students in high-poverty, low-performing schools were also raided by
> crooked education officials who embezzled funds, filed false
> invoices and reported ghost students to collect more money. As for
> emergency relief, Congress provided billions of dollars in funding
> to help K-12 schools and districts nationwide meet the educational
> needs of students affected by hurricanes and wildfires and billions
> more during the coronavirus pandemic, making the broad cash giveaway
> an easy target for corrupt educators. The audit found that those
> crimes “predominately involved false claims, mismanagement, or
> misuse of funds.”

ICE ARRESTS 1,328 CRIMINAL ALIENS IN WASHINGTON SUBURBS IN TWO-WEEK
SWEEP

More than 1,300 illegal immigrants with criminal records—including
murderers, rapists, kidnappers, arsonists, drug traffickers and
members of violent transnational gangs—were arrested in a two-week
federal crackdown across the Washington, D.C., suburbs of Virginia and
Maryland. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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> Illustrating once again how sanctuary policies endanger American
> communities by harboring criminal aliens, more than 1,300 illegal
> immigrants with serious criminal records have lived freely for an
> unknown period in two suburbs surrounding the nation’s capital.
> Even after getting arrested by local police, convicted or serving
> time for violent felonies, the foreign perpetrators were released by
> open border officials rather than turned over to federal authorities
> for removal. The offenders include murderers, rapists, kidnappers,
> arsonists, drug traffickers, and members of transnational criminal
> street gangs such as the famously violent Tren de Aragua, Mara
> Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street.
>
> In a significant development unlikely to receive mainstream media
> coverage, a federal crackdown recently arrested the
> offenders—1,328 in all—in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of
> Virginia and Maryland. Conducted by Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE), the two-week sweep, coined Operation Safe
> Community
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> comes on the heels of a similar roundup in Georgia that took more
> than 1,200 alien criminals off the streets. “When sanctuary
> politicians refuse to work with ICE, they force our officers to make
> these arrests at large in the communities–creating a more
> dangerous environment for our officers, the aliens we are arresting,
> and the general public,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal
> Operations (ERO) Acting Assistant Director Patricia Hyde. “We
> could be using one or two officers to make a custodial arrest in the
> security of a jail cell; however, because sanctuary politicians
> refuse to cooperate, we have to expend time, manpower, and resources
> to arrest these aliens on the streets.”
>
> This has long been a nationwide problem as local governments across
> the U.S. shield illegal immigrants—even those convicted of violent
> crimes—by refusing to participate in 287(g)
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> notifies ICE when inmates are in the country illegally so they can
> be deported rather than released into American communities. Less
> than a year ago, Judicial Watch reported
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> two sanctuary states alone, New York and Illinois, released nearly
> 9,000 criminal aliens from jails and prisons during a 10-month
> period, defying ICE detainers to remove them. Among the offenders
> protected by the sanctuary policies in the two states were
> murderers, terrorists, sexual predators, kidnappers, and serious
> drug offenders. A Turkish Known or Suspected Terrorist (KST) named
> Selman Cevik jailed for first degree menacing and harassment as well
> a rapist and two known gang members were let go by New York
> officials. Illinois released a Mexican man convicted of three counts
> of aggravated kidnapping/ransom and another convicted for predatory
> criminal sex assault of a child. It is not clear if any of the New
> York or Illinois criminal aliens have been apprehended by ICE since
> local officials released them.
>
> In the recent Operation Safe Community hundreds of the criminal
> aliens roaming the capital area had convictions for major crimes in
> the U.S. and clearly benefitted from the protection of sanctuary
> policies in counties throughout Virginia and Maryland. Others had
> serious felony charges or were known members of violent street
> gangs. Without cooperation from local authorities, tracking them
> down required more federal resources as well as time. “Our
> officers are the best in the world at finding people who do not want
> to be located,” said Hyde, the ICE ERO assistant director.
> “That’s exactly what we did throughout the course of this
> operation. Removing these criminal alien offenders from Virginia and
> Maryland neighborhoods makes for much safer communities, and that is
> exactly what the men and women of ICE work to accomplish every day
> across our great nation.”
>
> ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
> includes mug shots and a detailed criminal history of those
> apprehended in the recent operation surrounding the nation’s
> capital. Among them is German Mejia-Baires, a previously deported
> MS-13 gang member from El Salvador arrested for felony malicious
> wounding, driving while intoxicated and shoplifting. Haitian
> national Actionel Pierre, was free despite being wanted for
> attempted murder, two counts of assault, possession of a dangerous
> weapon with intent to injure, and reckless endangerment. Guatemalan
> Angel Gabriel Ortiz-Hernandez has a criminal history that includes
> rape of a mentally incapacitated victim and two counts of aggravated
> sexual battery of an incapacitated victim. Previously deported
> Jamaican Rowan Andrew Brown’s criminal history includes
> kidnapping, two counts of identity theft and fraud. Mexican Julio
> Hector Carranza-Rojano has charges for felony aggravated sexual
> battery, driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an
> accident.

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