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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This is just SHOCKING...not...
Democrats gonna Democrat...
Is it even worth asking?
Annoying.
LaTonja?
Sure sounds like the Harper Valley PTA.
No need for Boo Boo to even check with this one...
Exactly what purpose do PTAs serve?
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).
Oh no she di’int!
Yep. Only the undead would have sex with that.
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.)
Justice sure is fair. S/Off
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.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Does this involve Lutheran South Dakota FFA kids ?
Of course not.
For some reason they just are never the subject of these stories.
Miscellaneous expenses...
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