This week's charter school fraud: california operators use public $ to pay their personal bills

[Hannah Bell]

Ivy Academia slapped with 38 fraud counts

A husband-and-wife team that run a high-performing West Valley charter school were charged Thursday with 38 criminal counts alleging misuse of public funds, embezzling, money laundering and other crimes.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Public Integrity Division alleges that Eugene Selivanov, 38, and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, 32, who operate Ivy Academia Charter School, misused the school's public funds, at times shifting them to a private school the couple operates and at other times putting them to "personal use."

Ivy Academia Charter School is publicly funded and serves 1,100 students on four campuses in Woodland Hills, Winnetka, West Hills and Chatsworth from kindergarten to 12th grade.

The couple was charged with felony and misdemeanor crimes in connection with alleged thefts of more than $200,000, officials from the District Attorney's Office said. The Los Angeles Superior Court complaint details instances when Selivanov transferred public funds to for-profit companies and also used public funds to pay unrelated bills, such as credit cards.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15273793?nclick_check=1

[Scuba]

1. Another "privatizaton" failure.

[fasttense]

2. I hope you follow through with what your title implies.

Keep posting these failures. There are tens of thousands of them being reported locally but the corporate media and this administration are trying to ignore them. The are too heavily invested in ruining our educational system for fun and profit.

[rucky]

3. How many more of these cases need to be in the courts...

before people start getting wise to the scam?

[xchrom]

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