"...U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade's office claims Carolyn Starkey-Darden, the former Detroit Public Schools director of grant development, left the district after nearly 40 years in 2005, at which time the 69-year-old created multiple after-school and tutoring entities that billed and were paid at least $1.275 million fraudulently for services never administered to students.
"Ms. Starkey-Darden cheated the students of Detroit Public Schools out of valuable resources by fraudulently billing for her company's services" said David P. Gelios, special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit Division."In fact, Detroit students were cheated twice by this scheme.
"Students that needed tutoring never received it, and money that could have been spent on other resources was paid to Ms. Starkey-Darden as part of her fraud scheme."
...Another federal probe recently found a dozen or more teachers accepted bribes and kickbacks in exchange for offering contracts and fraudulent payments to a school supply company operated by Norman Fry, 74, of Franklin..."
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