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SUN: Voodoo sex spells, gambling binges, luxury gifts fuel $900K fraud probe
WCBM ^ | 07 20 2025 | Staff

Posted on 08/21/2025 8:22:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

MARYLAND (WBFF) — Federal officials are investigating a former Maryland PTA president for allegedly embezzling over $900,000 to live a lavish coast-to-coast lifestyle that included luxury trips, gambling benders and Voodoo sex spells — including a curse to break up the marriage of her alleged lover.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland opened a criminal case against LaTonja Carrera, 51, who served as state PTA president from November 2020 to October 2022, according to D.C. attorney and former federal prosecutor Seth Waxman. The state organization oversaw about 800 local PTA chapters and 130,000 volunteer members. The investigation is looking at Carrera’s unauthorized spending of PTA funds from May 2020 through October 2022, Waxman said.

Waxman said federal investigators asked him last month to provide documents from a forensic audit he ordered as a court-appointed receiver of the Maryland PTA in 2022, when he took over to protect and preserve the organization’s assets. The Chicago accounting firm BDO USA conducted the audit. Waxman detailed the findings in a June 2023 lawsuit filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court on behalf of the state PTA.

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1 posted on 08/21/2025 8:22:48 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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This is just SHOCKING...not...

Democrats gonna Democrat...


2 posted on 08/21/2025 8:24:15 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: yesthatjallen

Is it even worth asking?


3 posted on 08/21/2025 8:24:38 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: yesthatjallen

Annoying.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 8:24:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: yesthatjallen

LaTonja?


5 posted on 08/21/2025 8:25:11 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sure sounds like the Harper Valley PTA.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 8:25:12 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: yesthatjallen
LaTonja huh?
Nuff said.
7 posted on 08/21/2025 8:25:54 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: yesthatjallen

No need for Boo Boo to even check with this one...


8 posted on 08/21/2025 8:26:04 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Exactly what purpose do PTAs serve?


9 posted on 08/21/2025 8:28:27 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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10 posted on 08/21/2025 8:28:32 AM PDT by nwrep
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Friday, May 12, 2023

WASHINGTON –Latonja Dashawn Carrera, also known as Latonja Dashawn Martin, 48, of Camp Springs, Maryland, was sentenced today to twelve months incarceration, ten months suspended, and three years of probation for a felony charge of financial exploitation of a vulnerable or elderly adult in violation of D.C. Code §§ 22-933.01(a)(3) and 22-936.01(a)(1).

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-mental-health-and-community-residence-facility-director-sentenced-financial


11 posted on 08/21/2025 8:29:57 AM PDT by TexasGator (IThe 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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Oh no she di’int!


12 posted on 08/21/2025 8:31:21 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: nwrep
ACK!

Yep. Only the undead would have sex with that.

13 posted on 08/21/2025 8:32:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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14 posted on 08/21/2025 8:34:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I’m mainly interested how a PTA got $900,000 to steal.

That’s a lot of cupcakes.

(I’m assuming taxpayer or charitable money somehow was used to fund this.)


15 posted on 08/21/2025 8:34:12 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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This ho steals over $900 K and only gets a year. MAGA members got 3 years for even walking up the steps on Jan 6.

Justice sure is fair. S/Off

16 posted on 08/21/2025 8:34:54 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)
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How does a PTA president have access to $900,000 (probably had access to much more than that) to begin with? Anyone who has access to that much public money should be audited and there should be checks and balances in place to spend money.


17 posted on 08/21/2025 8:35:18 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Like shooting fish in a barrel.


18 posted on 08/21/2025 8:35:34 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Does this involve Lutheran South Dakota FFA kids ?
Of course not.
For some reason they just are never the subject of these stories.


19 posted on 08/21/2025 8:36:34 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: woweeitsme

Miscellaneous expenses...


20 posted on 08/21/2025 8:39:00 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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