BGA Public Eye: CPS’ SUPES probe leads to fallout across U.S.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The corruption investigation that led to disgraced former Chicago schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleading guilty to wire fraud has had fallout across the nation.

Byrd-Bennett, 66, could face a prison sentence of more than seven years after pleading guilty Oct. 13 and admitting she rigged $23 million of CPS contracts for The SUPES Academy and a sister company, Synesi Associates, in anticipation of getting a 10 percent kickback.

Byrd-Bennett previously was a paid consultant for SUPES, which provides training for school principals and other educators.

She has said she would cooperate with prosecutors in the case, in which Gary Solomon and Thomas Vranas, the two companies’ owners, have pleaded “not guilty.”

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