Phila. community college ex-official guilty in adult-ed scam — This is a weird and incredible tale. It makes you wonder how much of this sort of thing is rampant. I think lots.
PHILADELPHIA – A former Community College of Philadelphia administrator was convicted Friday on charges she defrauded the government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars for adult education classes that were never held.
Delores Weaver, 65, of Philadelphia, was found guilty of 23 criminal counts including conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit federal program fraud. She will be sentenced July 24.
Weaver and five others were charged with pocketing more than $270,000 in public funds for adult basic education classes at a Muslim school in West Philadelphia.
Federal prosecutors said the program was a sham , no classes were held despite payments to ghost teachers, who included Weaver’s son and two children of Faridah Ali, who was education director at the school.
Ali and her children, Lakiha Spicer and Azheem Spicer, and Weaver’s son, Eugene D. Weaver III, were convicted in 2004.
The case was related to a separate racketeering case against Ali and her husband, prominent Muslim cleric Shamsud-din Ali, that in turn stemmed from a wide-ranging FBI probe of corruption in City Hall.
The investigation became public when an FBI bug was discovered in then-Mayor John Street’s office in October 2003. More than a dozen people were convicted, some with close ties to the mayor, but Street denied wrongdoing and was never charged.
Shamsud-din Ali is serving a seven-year term.
Wonder why nobody complained ?
Maybe they were selling fake certificates as well
Would be funny if the former students used their college degrees as references
Maybe my dentist is one of these
Home dentistry is always a good idea
Caution: African Americans at “work”.
She should have known that, in this country, a Mayor is not enough to keep you out of trouble. You need Presidents, VPs and the like. You know, like Blackwater and Halliburton.
Also – Hey Donnie #2
#@!* you – bigot!
A bigot? You mean a realist. I won’t hold your limousine liberal can’t we all just get along hey it’s okay to rip off the system because you deserve reparations attitude against your stupid guilt tripping self. There’s a reason why more jails are being built for 13% of the population committing 49% of the crime in the US.
#4, KKK,
There’s a reason why more jails are being built for 13% of the population committing 49% of the crime in the US.
Would that be because white kids are more likely to get a warning and sent home while black kids are thrown in jail?
Of course this happens more often. Publicizing such prosecutions would help deter it. Also, not spending money like this would help.
Maybe it was all due to …
MECCA TIME!!!