Is this country great, or what? We can always rely on the Chicago area to give us lessons in what NOT to do in Florida if you are a government administrator. Read below and learn, grasshopper...
By the way, the Lake County School District recently had all the local charter schools audited, and they do monitor them, so I think they already know how to prevent this situation... apparently OUR Lake County School District administrators would rather spend the money teaching kids instead of funding Louis Vuitton purses. (:-))
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School's money spent on Coach bags, diet pills
The onetime head of a Chicago charter school is now facing prison time after she dipped into school funds to buy Louis Vuitton and Coach bags, $2,000 in hair care products and hundreds of dollars in diet pills.
Helen Hawkins, who formerly headed Triumphant Charter school on the city's South Side, was found guilty of embezzlement Friday after a brief trial in federal court.
Hawkins was accused of using the school's American Express credit card for personal use in 2004, but prosecutors introduced evidence of similar conduct in 2003, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel Hammerman said.
The case started with an investigation by the Chicago Public Schools' Inspector General's office, which questioned more than $250,000 in credit card charges, including almost $30,000 in charges at major department stores like Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, designer leather shops including Louis Vuitton and Coach, as well as Elan Furs, Tommy Hilfiger and Skymall Airline catalog.
In addition, the probe found $2,000 worth of charges for hair care and cosmetics, $329 in appetite suppression pills and $5,800 in jewelry, said Chicago Schools Inspector General James Sullivan.
Natasha Korecki, with Rosalind Rossi
