Former head of Impact Charter School indicted; state education leaders react

WBRZ ^ | 7/16/26

[CFW]

BATON ROUGE - The former head of Impact Charter School, her family members and an independent contractor were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday in connection with the embezzlement of school funds.

The school's previous CEO Chakesha Scott, her husband Eric Scott, their daughter Courtney Scott and contractor Sam Green were named in a criminal indictment filed in the Middle District of Louisiana. The four are accused of conspiring with one another to use school funds for personal use and creating false documents to make the payments appear as business expenses, a scheme that allegedly spanned from 2018 to 2024.

The indictment says Chakesha Scott diverted more than $2 million to a bank account for a separate organization called Friends of Impact Charter School, where she also served as CEO.

Chakesha Scott paid $166,520 from a school account for a 2021 Land Rover and a 2017 Acura MDX for her and her daughter to use, the document says, and the expenses were not authorized. Chakesha Scott also allegedly paid $42,371 to buy a 2018 Tesla from a dealership in Metairie.

Chakesha and Eric Scott, over the course of four years, also intentionally misapplied $292,993 collected from families for school uniforms and activities, official allege.

---

TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: corruption; education; louisiana; usualsuspects

[CFW]

As I said before, most of our nation's debt is due to fraud and corruption.

[Seruzawa]

Just like a public school then.

[CFW]

[CFW]

Just like a public school then.

---

Yep. Fraud, fraud, everywhere there’s fraud.

[eyeamok]

There sure appears to a plentiful amount o0f fraud at just about every gubmint agency.

[x]

“Abbot Elementary” isn’t a very good show, but it does make the point that inner city principals are often crooks.

[fhayek]

2018 to 2024. What I can't understand is that every organization, from school districts, to states, to federal agencies have a comptroller. Their job is to be a watchdog for this kind of crap. Why aren't they ever held to account for being asleep on the job?

[Liz]

She has a doctorate? In what? Stupidity?
Here she is graduating from eighth grade.

CEO Chakesha Scott, her husband Eric Scott, their daughter Courtney and contractor Sam Green are named in a criminal indictment, accused of collusion, conspiring to use tax dollars for personal use and falsifying official documents to make payments appear as business expenses, from 2018 to 2024.

[Albion Wilde]

Weaves don’t pay for themselves.