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  • Audit Describes 8 Years of Theft at L.I. Schools (plundered by admin thieves)

    03/03/2005 12:32:11 AM PST · by Liz · 76 replies · 3,547+ views
    NY TIMES ^ | March 3, 2005 | BRUCE LAMBERT
    For eight years, the top officials of an affluent Long Island school district systematically plundered taxpayer funds, illegally diverting at least $11.2 million to themselves, relatives and cronies for an array of goods and services, from a 65-cent bagel to a $1,812-a-night hotel suite to a mortgage on a luxury home in Florida, a new state audit says. The scandal, in Roslyn, N.Y., is the most pervasive such school fraud in the country, say officials from the National School Boards Association. The year-old case has already had repercussions in districts throughout New York State, where school officials and bookkeepers say...