Three school employees from Mississippi and Missouri have been sentenced for stealing nearly $400,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, federal prosecutors announced.
The case was examined in collaboration with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi and the Trump administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, according to State Auditor Shad White.
White commended his agency and federal prosecutors with exposing the fraud. “We will continue to work as hard as we can to hold anyone who steals taxpayer funds accountable,” he stated.
Two former school superintendents and a teacher were sentenced in relation to the conspiracy. The arrests and convictions were part of a campaign spearheaded by President Trump’s National Fraud Enforcement Division.
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