Authorities have charged Naia Wilson, a former Boston Public Schools principal, with one count of wire fraud for allegedly misusing nearly $40,000 in public money on herself for things like all-inclusive personal vacations.
Between September 2016 and May 2019, Wilson requested checks from the school’s account that were listed as being for other people. She then allegedly fraudulently endorsed those checks and deposited the checks into her own account. The persons the checks were for never knew of the checks or authorized Wilson to deposit them in her own account.
Wilson used some of the embezzled $38,806 to pay for two all-inclusive vacations to Barbados for herself and her friends in 2016 and 2018. Both times, Wilson requested checks payable to other people who went on the trips.