Detroit Public Schools fraud investigation finds millions in district funds misappropriated

We want to thank the ever alert Beachwood Reporter for this tale of massive corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars. Crain's Detroit Business reports:

The investigation to uncover fraud within the Detroit Public Schools has found evidence that millions of dollars in district funds have been misappropriated, stolen or embezzled. Six district employees have been immediately suspended.

DPS Inspector General John Bell announced the findings at a press conference today detailing “only a few” of the 85 individual fraud investigations launched by his office, created by DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb earlier this year in order to uncover fraud within the state’s largest school district.

“Parents, teachers and everyone ought to be disgusted, as I am,” Bobb said at the press conference.

Even as Bobb’s investigation team, with help from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has worked to uncover “every red penny” slated to support education in the district, “people continue to steal from us…creating cesspools of corruption,” Bobb said.

You'll want to read the whole article. The Detroit Public Schools are a greedy monopoly which deserves to be defunded.