Ex-school official pleads no contest in scheme to steer $900,000 contract to friends, family

[TexasTowelie]

The former small-business development manager for the Philadelphia schools pleaded no contest to perjury Wednesday involving charges that she steered a $900,000 contract to businesses owned by her friends or family.

Priscilla Wright, 52, of East Germantown, entered the plea before Common Pleas Court Judge Robert P. Coleman in a deal in which the District Attorney’s Office dismissed a misdemeanor conflict-of-interest count.

Coleman immediately sentenced Wright to the agreed-on sentence of two years’ reporting probation.

Defense attorney Brian J. McMonagle said neither he nor Wright wished to comment on the plea and sentence.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/Ex-school-official-pleads-no-contest-in-scheme-to-steer-900000-contract-to-friends-family.html

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1. Interesting,

the comments in the comment section of that article blame: democrats, unions, teachers, over-funding, but not the woman who did the deed.