{"id":2150,"date":"2008-10-02T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2008-10-02T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T18:38:58","slug":"milwaukee-school-board-member-charlene-hardin-screwing-taxpayers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/milwaukee-school-board-member-charlene-hardin-screwing-taxpayers-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee school board member Charlene Hardin screwing taxpayers again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if it wasn&#8217;t bad enough to go on a trip to Philadelphia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2008\/08\/25\/wasting-more-taxpayer-money-at-mps\/\">paid for by taxpayers<\/a>, but not attend the conference and instead make it a vacation&#8230;. Milwaukee Public Schools board member Charlene Hardin is now caught wasting more taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Bice at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=801756\">reports<\/a> that over the last 1.5 years, Hardin has gone on seven out-of-state trips paid for by the taxpayers, and costing them $8,500. What did those charges include?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$400 to rent a Chrysler 300 Touring for two days&#8230; which was driven 85 miles total, for a cost of $4.70 per mile<\/li>\n<li>A stay at a hotel with a $400+ rate per night<\/li>\n<li>A $300 charge for smoking in her room in the completely non-smoking Marriot in Washington D.C. (These penalties are common and guests are told about this before they light up.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The story keeps getting better and better, though. Janie Hatton, a former MPS principal and now contract consultant for the district went with Hardin on several of the trips. The documentation in support of many of Hardin&#8217;s expenses is scant.\u00a0 One example: $125 she says she spent on parking, school visits, and a community lunch&#8230; but she had no receipts for any of them and couldn&#8217;t even remember the name of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>And other board members don&#8217;t go on nearly as many out-of-state trips. They each average about one a year.<\/p>\n<p>Reminder: This is the type of person we have deciding how to run the district and how to spend taxpayer money. Pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if it wasn&#8217;t bad enough to go on a trip to Philadelphia paid for by taxpayers, but not attend the conference and instead make it a vacation&#8230;. Milwaukee Public Schools board member Charlene Hardin is now caught wasting more [&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-2150","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-yG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","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=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}