Audit finds ‘off the books’ account used by vendors to pay Montgomery Co. schools staff

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Anonymous wrote:Rah, rah, goooooo McKnight cheerleaders!!!

I want to throw up.

They seem to forgot the millions of federal covid grant money she signed off on for MCPS pet projects?

Boccegate, where they used federal money so that disabled kids could participate in PE!

Boccegate, where MCPS claimed they were building bocce ball courts for every middle school, claiming to spend $1m for $50 ball sets they play with in the gym - then hiding behind the disabled without accounting for the money spent? Is that what you're referring to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rah, rah, goooooo McKnight cheerleaders!!!

I want to throw up.

They seem to forgot the millions of federal covid grant money she signed off on for MCPS pet projects?

Boccegate, where they used federal money so that disabled kids could participate in PE!

Boccegate, where MCPS claimed they were building bocce ball courts for every middle school, claiming to spend $1m for $50 ball sets they play with in the gym - then hiding behind the disabled without accounting for the money spent? Is that what you're referring to?

I know how dare they spend money on the disabled! It's criminal!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rah, rah, goooooo McKnight cheerleaders!!!

I want to throw up.

They seem to forgot the millions of federal covid grant money she signed off on for MCPS pet projects?

Boccegate, where they used federal money so that disabled kids could participate in PE!

Boccegate, where MCPS claimed they were building bocce ball courts for every middle school, claiming to spend $1m for $50 ball sets they play with in the gym - then hiding behind the disabled without accounting for the money spent? Is that what you're referring to?

I know how dare they spend money on the disabled! It's criminal!!

But they didn’t. You are good with that? You must love the $1.2M side bank account for paying off MCPS administrators. They used “special education” school buses to hide that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS transportation is entirely corrupt, so nothing ever gets done. They always have bus trouble and have resisted all efforts to switch the high school and elementary start times.

So the bus folks don't want ES and HS start times switched?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS transportation is entirely corrupt, so nothing ever gets done. They always have bus trouble and have resisted all efforts to switch the high school and elementary start times.

I don't think MCPS Transportation really cares about switching start times; they'll be running routes at the same times either way. Just in a different order.

Guess who puts the lid on it every time it's suggested?

Haven't read further down this thread....so who is it that has "put the lid"?

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Anonymous wrote:Nearly a year after Montgomery County, Maryland, police reported they were investigating “possible financial improprieties” in the county school system’s transportation department, a new state audit offers details on what generated its investigation.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2022/10/audit-finds-off-the-books-account-used-by-vendors-to-pay-montgomery-co-schools-staff/

Yet massive corruption continues with zero consequences. Are taxpayers complicit?

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when public organizations get too big and have way more money than they actually need.

No. This is what happens when you have insular and incompetent leadership who are shielded from accountability.

The buck stops with Dr. McKnight.

The buck stops with the BoE, who can fire Dr M.

OMG, my head is going to explode! I thought things couldn't get any worse after Boccegate! It's terrible that MCPS found that an employee was stealing so scandalous!!

It was multiple employees and they were working multiple embezzlement schemes for 5 years. On top on that MCPS was being cheated by the vendor that they buy their school buses from. That also went on for over 5 years. MCPS only looked back 5 years so this could have been going on for 20 years.

MCPS doesn’t monitor or audit credit card usage of administrators. There are over 1,000 MCPS credit cards floating around.

The MCPS credit card bill doubled from $9M to $18M recently.

I guess it's a testament to McKnight that her administration caught this despite only being charge for a few months!

+1 that’s how I see it.

I am sure the corruption goes deeper.

Then what is McKnight doing about it since she won’t even acknowledge what happened?
Post her statement and plan here.

Or is embezzlement fine with her?

$1.7M was stolen from public school students and the superintendent said_____?

Sounds like McKnight has put an end to this abuse in her short time in office.

+1000 Apparently this had gone on for years but she shut it down in just the few months she's been on the job!

She did? Where did she announce that? Where is her press conference on this? What is her plan to keep this from happening again? She doesn't have one and
she hasn't said a word about this. The entire embezzlement scheme was outed by the State Audit, not by McKnight. By the way, did McKnight move to
Montgomery County like her contract required?

+1 This embezzlement scheme happened while Dr. McKnight was Deputy Superintendent and Acting Superintendent. She is responsible for a lack of accountability in MCPS that allows crimes like stealing from the school system happen.

A red flag to bribery of county school employees was the no bid contracts. Perhaps require and review multiple bids and choose the most competitive contract for MCPS.

I don't know what's worse, this, boccegate or the kids museum!?!

You forgot Board of Education members who used MCPS credit cards for personal expenses.

Maybe because you're taking about something that happened 8 years ago, with people who are no longer on the board.

But it just happened again. So nothing changed in 8 years. The Transportation director and assistant director charged $500K on their MCPS credit cards for personal items. That's on top of the $1.2M they had stashed in the secret bank account.

Why should anything change when taxpayers are happy to foot the bill?

DEMAND arrests for FRAUD, you fools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nearly a year after Montgomery County, Maryland, police reported they were investigating “possible financial improprieties” in the county school system’s transportation department, a new state audit offers details on what generated its investigation.
https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2022/10/audit-finds-off-the-books-account-used-by-vendors-to-pay-montgomery-co-schools-staff/

Yet massive corruption continues with zero consequences. Are taxpayers complicit?

There is no accountability. Boe and Taylor promised it. Where is it?

[Anonymous]

Corruption constituting theft of public monies should be a felony with one year minimum mandatory prison time. No matter the amount. People do it because they get away with it, and the consequences aren’t bad enough even if they’re caught.

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This is a zombie thread, for those just catching up. It appears to have been restarted by the person interested in start times.

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Anonymous wrote:Corruption constituting theft of public monies should be a felony with one year minimum mandatory prison time. No matter the amount. People do it because they get away with it, and the consequences aren’t bad enough even if they’re caught.

The person that set up the embezzlement scheme went home on probation. No prison time. Proving that setting up a scheme to embezzle millions from MCPS is not a crime punishable by prison. Buy your boat, car, travel all on MCPS’ money and enjoy your retirement.
Criminal record? You are welcome to teach in MCPS schools because your record won’t be checked. Abuse a child? Become a teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corruption constituting theft of public monies should be a felony with one year minimum mandatory prison time. No matter the amount. People do it because they get away with it, and the consequences aren’t bad enough even if they’re caught.

Follow the money. No matter how bad MCPS gets, some MCPS Central Office leaders get richer, and get rid of people who challenge or threaten their power.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Corruption constituting theft of public monies should be a felony with one year minimum mandatory prison time. No matter the amount. People do it because they get away with it, and the consequences aren’t bad enough even if they’re caught.

Follow the money. No matter how bad MCPS gets, some MCPS Central Office leaders get richer, and get rid of people who challenge or threaten their power.

Get them out.