Wednesday, February 23, 2011

"Seattle Public Schools spending targeted in criminal probe"

By Steve Miletich and Linda Shaw
Seattle Times staff reporters

"Details of the alleged fraud only now are emerging, more than seven months after a single suspicious transaction led to multiple, overlapping investigations implicating people inside and outside the district. The district's internal auditor resigned in December as the district prepared to fire him in connection with a special state audit, and another district manager reportedly has disappeared as investigators have sought to question him.

The irregularities center on a school-district program that helped small businesses, primarily female- and minority-owned companies, compete for contracts with the district and other government agencies, according to the state audit obtained Tuesday by The Seattle Times."

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