Inspector General finds procurement violations within MCPS - active employees are double-dipping as contractors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:32:12,831= 1 million:400 million

Even if it's not an exact ratio and they just managed to randomly sample 7 particularly pricy transactions, we're still talking possibly tens of millions of dollars spent improperly while we have increased class sizes and kids in schools with mold and rats.

Also, these were just the non-capital transactions. Capital transactions are construction and equipment. Think all those were all above board? Ha.

I'm outraged about this and I hope our local media actually explain this and ask tough questions.

Not just the media, but also the community. People need to shame the BOE at their meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm less worried about the personnel than I am about the unapproved contracts.

The personnel is likely some of the folks that McKnight brought back when she was desperately floundering to keep her job. Remember she brought back Henry Johnson who had retired, and a few others? I suspect some of them had been consultants and then were hired in the same year or vice versa. So technically against policy, but I don't think the majority of them were double-dipping at the same time. I could be wrong, though.

Henry Johnson is back. Essie/Taylor have him doing dirty work behind the scenes.

He's working as a consultant from Florida?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm less worried about the personnel than I am about the unapproved contracts.

The personnel is likely some of the folks that McKnight brought back when she was desperately floundering to keep her job. Remember she brought back Henry Johnson who had retired, and a few others? I suspect some of them had been consultants and then were hired in the same year or vice versa. So technically against policy, but I don't think the majority of them were double-dipping at the same time. I could be wrong, though.

Henry Johnson is back. Essie/Taylor have him doing dirty work behind the scenes.

He's working as a consultant from Florida?

Yup!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm less worried about the personnel than I am about the unapproved contracts.

The personnel is likely some of the folks that McKnight brought back when she was desperately floundering to keep her job. Remember she brought back Henry Johnson who had retired, and a few others? I suspect some of them had been consultants and then were hired in the same year or vice versa. So technically against policy, but I don't think the majority of them were double-dipping at the same time. I could be wrong, though.

Henry Johnson is back. Essie/Taylor have him doing dirty work behind the scenes.

He's working as a consultant from Florida?

Yup!

This is ridiculous, he was Jack Smith’s right hand guy and supported the hell out of McKnight. Next we will hear Lavern and Lance are back working under the radar! SMH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

Hi Monifa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

Hi Monifa

Say hi to whoever. The same admins worked for all of the superintendents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:32:12,831= 1 million:400 million

Even if it's not an exact ratio and they just managed to randomly sample 7 particularly pricy transactions, we're still talking possibly tens of millions of dollars spent improperly while we have increased class sizes and kids in schools with mold and rats.

Also, these were just the non-capital transactions. Capital transactions are construction and equipment. Think all those were all above board? Ha.

I'm outraged about this and I hope our local media actually explain this and ask tough questions.

Not necessarily spent improperly though. The transactions themselves were under the threshold they total up to over $25K per vendor/contractor.

Also with a ratio of 1M:4M, that would not result in tens of millions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

Hi Monifa

Say hi to whoever. The same admins worked for all of the superintendents.

Stop deflecting responsibility from McKnight. Everything in this OIG report happened under her watch, or Felder's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm less worried about the personnel than I am about the unapproved contracts.

The personnel is likely some of the folks that McKnight brought back when she was desperately floundering to keep her job. Remember she brought back Henry Johnson who had retired, and a few others? I suspect some of them had been consultants and then were hired in the same year or vice versa. So technically against policy, but I don't think the majority of them were double-dipping at the same time. I could be wrong, though.

The detail on the findings for contracts is that 7 out of 32 tested were not in compliance. That tells me they really weren't even trying to catch anything that wasn't a single transaction of over $25K. If a vendor had multiple payments that add up to $25K they slip through.

In a big picture sense, though, $25K is a very small amount to be asking for board approval every time. There's no way they are providing meaningful oversight because there are going to be SO MANY $25K vendors in a budget of $3.6 billion. The threshold should be raised if they want this to be a effective control vs a rubber stamp.

I agree with you in the abstract, but given that:

1) This board is part-time and easily duped and manipulated by Board staff and the superintendent, there's reason to keep the threshold this low

2) The total amount of unapproved funds spent by MCPS is $1 million: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/report-finds-mcps-spent-1m-without-board-education-approval Again, in the context of the overall budget that's not meaningful, but if it could balloon to $1 million, you can see how that number could get even bigger without changes in oversight.

That's only from the OIG reviewing 32 random transactions out of the 12,000+ records they received. The depth of this fraud and waste is huge and will likely never fully be uncovered. How do we as tax payers ask for a full audit to see just how much was paid unapproved and to double dippers? This honestly has the potential to be the biggest MCPS scandal to date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

Hi Monifa

Say hi to whoever. The same admins worked for all of the superintendents.

Stop deflecting responsibility from McKnight. Everything in this OIG report happened under her watch, or Felder's.

McKnight was fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here we go again. Another Black eye for MCPS.

Who will be held accountable?

Mrs. Ivon Alfonso-Windsor is MCPS' Chief Financial Officer. Perhaps the COO Adnan Mamoon?

I'd be interested in knowing the names of the 7 employees who double-dipped.

The report says this took place during FY23 and FY24, so McKnight/Felder era.

Gawd, the sh(t that went down under her leadership. And then she got a cushy job with UMD afterwards. WTF were they thinking. I'm sorry, but she's a total DEI hire, and I'm not white.

And under Smith and under Taylor. So you can forget about blaming one superintendent.

Essie McGuire has been there for all of it.

Sorry, but none of them were in MCPS in FY23 or 24.

Essie McGuire never left. She was either a MCPS administrator or a the County Council as the Education Committee staffer as part of the Council’s oversight.

The same people are in the MCPS procurement office and in the BOE office as have been for years.

Keep trying to cover up for them, it won’t work.

Hi Monifa

Say hi to whoever. The same admins worked for all of the superintendents.

Stop deflecting responsibility from McKnight. Everything in this OIG report happened under her watch, or Felder's.

McKnight was fired.

Because that is how audits are conducted. They have a time period they cover. Now do the time since then to today.

Bet you get the same result.

Now who will you blame?