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  1. July 09, 2018

    Pa. Accountant Gets A Year In $8M School Fund Pilfering Plot

    A Pittsburgh federal judge on Monday sentenced an accountant to just over a year in prison and ordered him to pay $50,000 in restitution for helping a cyber school's administrator hide more than $8 million in public funds funneled from the school.

  2. July 06, 2018

    Accountant Who Aided School CEO In Fraud Must Pay IRS

    An accountant who has admitted to aiding a Pennsylvania charter school CEO in a scheme to avoid taxes and steal public funds is liable for restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, a Pennsylvania federal judge has found.

  3. August 24, 2016

    Ex-Pa. Charter School CEO Pleads Guilty To Tax Conspiracy

    The former CEO of a Pennsylvania charter school who spent the last three years battling a federal indictment accusing him of fraud and bribery, among other crimes, for stealing public funds and avoiding taxes pled guilty in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday to a single charge of tax conspiracy.

  4. July 29, 2016

    Feds Slam Ex-Pa. School CEO's Strike Bid In Fraud Case

    Federal prosecutors have blasted the requests of a former Pennsylvania charter school CEO to have accusations that he violated campaign finance and ethics laws excluded from his criminal fraud trial, arguing on Thursday and Friday that evidence of the uncharged acts is permissible and directly relevant to the case.

  5. July 20, 2016

    Pa. School Ex-CEO Wants Claims Stricken From Fraud Case

    The former CEO of a Pennsylvania charter school facing federal fraud charges asked a Pennsylvania court to exclude accusations of improper political donations and mentions of state ethics law from his trial, arguing he has not been charged with campaign finance or ethics law violations.

  6. November 17, 2015

    Pa. School Founder Can't Ax Indictment Over Recordings

    The former CEO of a western Pennsylvania charter school lost his bid to toss a case alleging that he stole public funds and avoided taxes, a federal court judge held Monday, saying he couldn't support claims that prosecutors recorded privileged attorney-client conversations.

  7. April 22, 2015

    Feds Say Indicted School Founder Can't Shield Atty Convos

    The conversations prosecutors secretly recorded between a former CEO of a Pennsylvania charter school and attorneys were not privileged, the government told a federal judge this week in a case alleging stolen public funds and tax dodging.

  8. June 05, 2014

    Indicted Pa. School Founder Says His Attys Were Taped

    The former CEO of a western Pennsylvania charter school on Tuesday asked a federal judge to throw out a case alleging that he stole public funds and avoided income taxes, arguing that prosecutors listened in on his lawyers' conversations.