Today's buffet of hot district morsels ... ** The feds could bail DISD out of its budget mess with a $201 million slice of the stimulus pie. Question: Why would giving money to schools stimulate the economy? ** Kids are...
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What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Any minute now, Frankie Wong will have the book thrown at him, if yesterday's sentencing of his partner-in-crime is any indication. ** Steve Blow says schools are succeeding despite district-level...
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What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Last week, the district's CFO told trustees that the financial reformation needed in the district would take at least another year, if not longer. Yesterday, Hinojosa met in super-secret-closed-door-session with...
Greg Milton, who until recently was a director in Purchasing, claims he was wrongly fired after his bosses learned he talked to the FBI during its investigation into p-card evil-doers. Internal records show that Milton was one of the few...
... for his alleged role in DISD's "Boatgate." He also has to perform 40 hours of community service and pay $10 in court fees, according to his lawyer, David Finn. The probation lasts one year, and the fine is $5,000....
The jury that recently convicted Ruben Bohuchot and Frankie Wong of bribery, money laundering and tax evasion took about eight hours to deliver the verdict. But they took nearly twice that long to determine how much money, if any, the...
This just in from the courthouse: A jury in the corruption trial against a former Dallas school administrator and a vendor who did millions of dollars worth of business with the district found both men guilty on all charges this...
You rubberneckers awaiting the start of the criminal trial of former DISD tech boss Ruben Bohuchot and ex-computer vendor Frankie Wong will have to wait another week. The trial, which was to get underway Monday, was delayed until June 16...
UPDATED 6:25 P.M. -- William Coleman, a former top Dallas ISD administrator indicted along with two others in a money laundering and bribery scheme, pleaded guilty this afternoon to one count of attempting to influence a grand jury. That charge,...
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