Tavares, FL Oct. 13, 2015
"Last Thursday, former Chicago Public School CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was indicted by a federal grand jury for funneling $23-million in no-bid CPS contracts to former employers in exchange for kickbacks."
Here is a local, Chicago TV video report.
The CEO was appointed by Democrat Rahm Emmanuel
Read why watchdog bloggers, internal audits and oversight are needed on all government agencies.
A blogger's article was read by the Schools' Inspector General, who investigated further, and then the FBI took over.
"Beginning in April 2012, the federal indictment says, Byrd-Bennett, Solomon and Vranas “knowingly devised, intended to devise, and participated in a scheme to defraud and to obtain money and property from CPS” by fraudulent means.
Byrd-Bennett is said to have agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks that would be paid by $127,000 being deposited into each of her twin grandsons’ “college tuition accounts” when she returned to SUPES as an employee–even if for just a day."
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