Former Boston Principal Charged With Using $40K in School Funds for Vacations in Barbados
“allegedly requested checks from the external fiscal agent school account to be issued to student nominees then deposited them into her own bank account”
What kind of person does this? She even brought friends with her on the trips.
FOX News reports:
Former Boston principal used nearly $40K of school funds to finance all-inclusive vacations to Barbados: FBI
The former principal of a Massachusetts high school is facing federal charges after redirecting nearly $40,000 in school funds to pay for her all-inclusive vacations to Barbados.
Naia Wilson, 60, of Mattapan, was the principal at New Mission School from 2006 through 2019, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Wilson pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and agreed to pay restitution after she defrauded the Boston Public Schools and state taxpayers of approximately $38,806.
New Mission High School is a college prep school with about 260 students from grades 7 to 12 in Hyde Park, a Boston neighborhood.
The school is a pilot school that is given “maximum autonomy over their budget and spending,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. During Wilson’s tenure, the school received a lump sum per pupil budget from Boston Public Schools and administrators decided how to spend that money based on the needs of the school.
As the headmaster of the school, Wilson was required to make formal money requests to the external fiscal agent who requested to the money from the bank account holding the school funds. The 60-year-old allegedly requested checks from the external fiscal agent school account to be issued to student nominees then deposited them into her own bank account.
Rather than helping underprivileged students, Wilson used some of the stolen money to pay for two all-inclusive vacations to Barbados for her and her friends in 2016 and 2018.
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In her defense:
1. She did not kill anyone
2. She did not post naked photos of students.
3. She didn’t sell drugs or alcohol on school grounds
4. She did not misgender anyone
She simply used her executive position to allocate funds administratively that the white cis-patriarchy seems “somehow wrong.”
Plus, she was able to help the tourism businesses of an America-adjacent nation
So all in all, from her point of view she probably feels that she is owed gratitude not punishment.
Wonder the odds she’ll pay off the restitution
She stole and used money that was not hers for her own personal use-
“What kind of person does this? She…”
Embezzler, check.
School adminstrator, check.
Female, check.
The pattern holds true.
Look at her picture.
I just did but already knew. It was not the name. It was the in your face sense of entitlement, with a healthy dose of stupidity.
Strangely, the recent collection of “school administrator embezzles funds” incidents seems to (me at least to) be strongly linked to sex, and not so much to race.
Thank you for using proper terminology, and not “gender”.
So the school didn’t have a little league team that she could pilfer the money from. That is how they do it around here in order to go play video poker at some sleezy bar. Then they act like gambling should be treated as an ‘excuse”and not as an explanation.
I wonder what they were paying her in annual salary.
I also wonder how well the students were doing in terms of their test scores in relation to students not enrolled in this pilot program.