This Sounds Like Fun
We only hope a bunch of it is true:
- Right after the DNC, CPS OIG is going to be announcing they found 100's
of principals, assistant principals, teachers, & staffers were
involved in PPP loan fraud.
Here's the rub..since CPS is experiencing a teacher and administrator shortage, few if any of the new fraudsters will lose their jobs. The fraudsters will have to pay back what they took in loans plus a penalty. Most will have their wages garnished with no suspensions, only a warning put in their personnel files.
The CPS OIG already nailed 12 highly paid employees and sent them packing, including 4 assistant principals and a former Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO that was making $225K. This was Crysral Cooper to current CPS CEO (Pedro Martinez).
Cooper is the second Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO in recent years to be dismissed and DNH'd by CPS. The other is Pedro Soto, Jr. as he worked under Janice Jackson and lied to the Feds about his dealings with a vendor in the school cleaning contract bidding war.
The schools need a couple big scandals exposed to provide impetus to any sort of "reform" movement.
Labels: from the comments, scandals
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
47 Comments:
Is the information from this “investigation” going to be released?
Is there a, ummm, common denominator to the offenders?
Which is one HUGE reason no one will be prosecuted!
President Trump once said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and he wouldn't lose any support.
Same goes for crooked government organizations like CTU.
It doesn't matter how hard they fail, it doesn't matter that they're all openly communist. It doesn't matter that they have stolen or squandered billions of dollars. It doesn't matter that they have set a new standard for naked public corruption. They WILL get the support from the Democrat scumbags that run this state from top to bottom. They WILL get more money and resources on demand.
CPS OIG wants to wait until after the DNC to publish an update to their investigation on CPS employees committing PPP loan fraud for the obvious reason, not to embarass BJ and the city in front of the nation. Second reason is the CPS fiscal year ends June 30th and any investigations after that date ends up in the 2025 not 2024 CPS OIG Annual Report.
Crystal Cooper was elevated from the Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO to Chief of Operations Manager.
The CPS OIG is self-reporting CPS employees involved in the PPP loan fraud, Like they did for the missing 77,705 laptops, is because they don't want federal oversight over CPS.
The problem with the laptops is most if not all of those laptops were paid with federal governmental money.
There's no teacher and administrator shortage. They just can't fill the positions they created when they already had plenty of teachers and administrators. If they would close a few schools and shuffle some worthless employees around, they'd have more than enough staffing. Even if they fired all the undoubtedly black and brown criminals in this case, they'd still have enough to fail at teaching the students who don't want to learn. But firing them would be the right thing to do, and this is Chicago, so we can't have that. Instead they'll strike until they get enough of a raise to cover the money they stole. But it'll be "for the children."
First glance, read 100s of as 100% of.
Was surprised that I was not surprised at that, given that the cps/ctu/democrats cabal is a grifter's wet dream set-up.
Now, that 100's not being 1,000's is suprising.
They need to be sent to prison.
You cant talk about chicago school system unless it's proceeded by the word struggling to invoke strong emotions
Too bad all of the retired and leaving soon P.O.'s wouldn't grab all of the vacant teaching positions and kill the CPS/CTU beast from within!!!
Is the Federal government allowing these morons to just pay back the loans W/O any actual punishment?? Sounds like a very VERY bad precedent. When they start naming CPD brass & others in the county courts etc. they can’t be punished either right? I would yell discrimination why am I fired & getting a criminal record when the CPS teachers who can’t teach get to keep their phony baloney jobs & no criminal records??? Oh wait you can be a kid toucher & keep your gig at CPS W/O any fear of reprisals. Carry on business as usual
There are plenty of replacements available, just not the right kind.
"The CPS OIG already nailed 12 highly paid employees and sent them packing..."
The rest will be placed on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION FOR ONE SEMESTER.
CPS needs to be taken over by the Feds and broken into smaller more manageable districts. Also easier to keep an eye on. No more hiding fraudsters, abusers and thieves under a rock
The greed of these grifters never ends. And the students? Hah, hah, hah, they can't do math....
Retired in Texas……
Where is K W A M E on all this?
What is he being paid to do?
Stay safe out there….
CPS is incapable of reform. The populace doesn’t give a fuck. It’s daycare and food for 90% of its users. Chicago is so debased that most residents wouldn’t give a fuck if somehow the media exposed the amount of diddlings going on in CPS facilities. Yes, Chicago is that fucked up.
So the CTU pay raises will cover reimbursement of what they previously stole from taxpayers?
Makes perfect sense.
Pedro Soto, Jr. rose to the Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO (Janice Jackson) with only a high school diploma from Quigley North. No college coursework let alone no ISBE educational certifications or endorsements.
Northern District of Illinois | Former Chicago Public Schools Employee Sentenced to 18 Months of Probation | United States Department of Justice
CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a former Chicago Public Schools employee to 18 months of probation after he pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
PEDRO SOTO, 48, of Chicago admitted in a plea agreement that he intentionally misled the FBI while the agency was conducting a criminal investigation into Soto’s interactions with a lobbyist and the lobbyist’s colleague regarding the awarding of a custodial services contract valued at approximately $1 billion. Soto was a member of a CPS evaluation committee tasked in 2016 with recommending to the Chicago Board of Education which company or companies CPS should hire to perform the services, and the lobbyist and the lobbyist’s colleague were assisting one of the companies bidding for the contract. Soto admitted in the plea agreement that he repeatedly provided non-public information to the lobbyist’s colleague concerning the award of the contract, and that he had done so, in part, because the lobbyist’s colleague had promised to extend various benefits to Soto. Soto further admitted that in 2019 he intentionally made false statements to the FBI when he denied having provided the lobbyist’s colleague with inside information about the awarding of the contract.
U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman sentenced Soto 18 months of probation, along with a $3,000 fine and 100 hours of community service on March 16, 2023.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-chicago-public-schools-employee-sentenced-18-months-probation
PPP fraud investigation in Chicago Public Schools results in a top CPS official, 13 others losing their jobs - Chicago Sun-Times
Crystal Cooper, who as head of school operations reported directly to CEO Pedro Martinez, was the highest-ranking of 14 CPS staffers to leave their jobs as a result of Inspector General Will Fletcher's investigation of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans they got.Sep 6, 2023
(Prior to being head of School Operations, Cooper was the Chief of Staff to the CPS CEO, Pedro Martinez)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/6/23860469/ppp-payroll-protection-program-cps-will-fletcher-crystal-cooper
Dream on....nothing will happen
Anonymous said...
Is the information from this “investigation” going to be released?
Is there a, ummm, common denominator to the offenders?
Which is one HUGE reason no one will be prosecuted!
6/26/2024 12:09:00 AM
Yes, there is. Most of the CPS PPP Loan Fraudsters are Black people, followed by a trickling of Hispanics with little to no White people.
Odds are BJ will propose as part of the reparations for Black Chicagoans that they catch a break, saying unfair opportunities growing up led them to this path.
What other fraud have these CPS employees been guilty of as well? Tendencies. If they committ one fraud, they have a tendency to committ other frauds.
My kids all graduated from top colleges with top degrees.
I administered them successfully.
I’ll take their jobs for half the pay when supplemented by my CPD pension.
Where is the list?
Shouldn't the CPD's Financial Crimes Unit be involved in the PPP LOAN FRAUD and the 77,507 laptops and tech devices lost, missing, or stolen?
Two things the unit could ask is "Why did CPS pay for tracking devices on the laptops and didn't use it?" And if CPS was using the tracking devices but turned them off when thousands of laptops were tracked to pawn shops.
CPS OIG doesn't control federal law. Those CPS fraudsters will all be doing time in a federal gray bar hotel. I guess CPS is going to be even more shorthanded.
As long as their names go public, have at it.
Is this white or black privilege.
What happened to “no one is above the law.” Apparently that only matters if you are of a certain persuasion. Hasn’t there been a precedent set that certain punitive action will be taken. Just more of the same old same old.
You get fired.
You get fired.
You get fired.
You get indicted.
Oh, it’s you, hush up quick, you get promoted.
CPS, reform? Just what are you smoking?
School Choice is the only solution. CPS will have Zero students with School Choice. Think of how much more money Gov. Fatass can spend on migrants with School Choice!
K W A M E is still finishing up his book series, hooked-on-phonics, so he cannot be disturbed.
CPS is just another hot bed of corruption in a mosaic of city corruption, unethical behavior and shame. All under the Democratic Party banner and the support of their media lapdogs.
Such a shame so many CPD officers are actually married to crooked CPS teachers and administrators.
He he he,shitcaga ,run by conehead the magnificent, emporer of mongo,and ruler of the universe reminds me of stalins grand plans for the Supreme soviet. The agrarian plains of Ukraine were tended by peasant farmers for centuries and the breadbasket of Europe. Well the central committee in Moscow knew better. You can insert dc,springfield, cook county or city hall in this part of the tale. So fuck the farmers who knew the soil,let's send good loyal party members to run the farms. It was great, they were all bosses,so they got paid for doing nothing. Why plant seeds when you can just eat them they said in their party wisdom. So they went from exporting millions of tons of food to 30 million Ukrainians starving to death. Party knows best. Right joe,boss hog,Kim, conehead and phony Toni?
Kwame don't go after many folks
“It doesn't matter how hard they fail, it doesn't matter that they're all openly communist. It doesn't matter that they have stolen or squandered billions of dollars. It doesn't matter that they have set a new standard for naked public corruption. They WILL get the support from the Democrat scumbags that run this state from top to bottom. They WILL get more money and resources on demand…”
Hey genius, thanks for putting a feather in their cap!
Also heard that some sicko CTU member was caught stealing and shoving pears up his ass. That fruit is for the kids' lunches and paid for by the taxpayer. And why pears? Sick bastard.
Can't do it before the DNC or it might make the Overlords look bad... LOL...
Where's the info? Sure would be a shame if it got leaked early...
Here's an idea, without us knowing the outcome, what do you think the demographics will be?
Can you imagine if a PPP Fraud case was brought against Trump. CTU are just pigs at the trough and more responsible for despair and death in the Black Community than the Klan ever was.
This is so rich. These teachers were the worst during Covidian times. Rolling up in their pajamas to turn on Zoom School while getting paid. I just can’t anymore with this clown world
And why pears? Sick bastard.
6/26/2024 04:01:00 PM
Do you really want to know?
The rumor is delicious, but I think at least a part of it is likely going to be wrong.
While I believe Mayor Johnson and the CTU President would LOVE it if the fraudsters weren't fired and they may be stupid enough to just try to get them to pay back the fraudulent PPP loans there's little chance the outcry resulting won't result in mass firings.
Fraudsters will be fired. Few will be charged with federal crimes. There's a few million people nationwide who took part in PPP fraud. Simply, too many to charge.
The folks who will be charged are elected officials and those who stole millions.
Plus folks involved in other crimes where the feds can just tack on the charges to the more serious stuff.
Don't lose hope though. There's likely to be some elected Chicago officials charged at some point with PPP fraud. Alderman Clay in the 46th has been tied to questionable loans and she isn't likely the only one.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-worst-run-us-cities-study
"Anonymous said...
CPS needs to be taken over by the Feds and broken into smaller more manageable districts. Also easier to keep an eye on. No more hiding fraudsters, abusers and thieves under a rock
6/26/2024 06:00:00 AM"
The Feds are just as corrupt as the Communist Teachers Union
"Anonymous said...
CPS is incapable of reform. The populace doesn’t give a fuck. It’s daycare and food for 90% of its users. Chicago is so debased that most residents wouldn’t give a fuck if somehow the media exposed the amount of diddlings going on in CPS facilities. Yes, Chicago is that fucked up.
6/26/2024 06:33:00 AM"
It's called "normalization"
Responding to Anonymous @ 11:22 PM…
The rumor is delicious, but I think at least part of it is likely going to be wrong…
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Which rumor?! The one about the Covid handouts or the one about pears up the ass? Either one is disturbing
Didn’t CPS lose 1,000’s of laptops that were handed out to students?
No accountability?no tracking devices?
This has been going on for years , Paul Vallas was on to CPS .
Teachers taking children to vote in democrat primary,general election helped get Brandon Johnson elected.
Where are his academic,attendance records from Pre K through 12th Grade?
What about his records when he was a teacher?
He knows all about budgets, maybe Big Toni told him to vote yes to pass county budgets.
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