{"id":1243,"date":"2008-02-04T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2008\/02\/04\/steal-public-funds-get-a-new-gig-paid-for-with-public-funds\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T20:01:26","slug":"steal-public-funds-get-a-new-gig-paid-for-with-public-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/steal-public-funds-get-a-new-gig-paid-for-with-public-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal public funds, get a new gig paid for with public funds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that everyone has to make a living somehow. But I&#8217;m sorry&#8230;. you steal taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to educate children, and you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to get paid with taxpayer money for&#8230; educating children.<\/p>\n<p>Rosella Tucker was charged last month with embezzling over $300,000 from a Milwaukee Public Schools charter school, New Hope Institute of Science and Technology. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=714155\">And now she&#8217;s running Sherbro Educational Services LLC&#8230;<\/a> which tutors children under the No Child Left Behind Law. She&#8217;s got 27 kids at $1,795 a pop&#8230; for a total of over $48,000 of federal money. Not a bad gig, if you can get it.<\/p>\n<p>The tutoring company is one of about 25 that are listed on the MPS website&#8230;. advertised to parents as tutoring options. You get on the list by applying with the Departement of Public Instruction, which Tucker did in June.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tucker&#8217;s pending case is a federal one, with the potential for 20 years if she&#8217;s convicted. $300,000 isn&#8217;t chump change. She established New Hope Institute of Science and Technology in 2003 as a subsidiary of her corporate, New Hope Child Development Inc. From 2003 through 2005, it&#8217;s alleged that she took $300,000 out of the school, using the money for things such as an SUV and furniture. The school&#8217;s charter was revoked in February 2006 because of unpaid bills and unlicensed teachers.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2006, DPI ordered Tucker to pay back $740,000 that she had received in voucher money over two years for Milwaukee Parental Choice Program school, Tucker&#8217;s Institute of Learning. Surprise, surprise&#8230; she filed bankruptcy a couple months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that everyone has to make a living somehow. But I&#8217;m sorry&#8230;. you steal taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to educate children, and you shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to get paid with taxpayer money for&#8230; educating children. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}