Worthy and Bobb to hold press conference DPS

[DetroitTeacher]

This is on the DPS website. Should be interesting.

Wayne County Prosecutor and DPS Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb to hold press conference

Tuesday, August 11, 2009
August 11, 2009

For Immediate Release
Contact: Maria Miller
Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
[[313) 224-5817
[[313) 213-0457
mmiller@co.wayne.mi.us

Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy and Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb will hold a press conference on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. to announce charges issued in connection with Detroit Public School investigations.

The press conference will be held in the 12th floor conference room of the Wayne County Prosecutors Office, located in the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, 1441 St Antoine, Detroit, Michigan.

[Hamtragedy]

This could be interesting. Maybe.

[daddeeo]

Some guys may be headed out of town permanently.

[Stosh]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/20369784/index.html

[gnome]

The charges include:

• Lisa Corean Williams, 41, of Detroit, was a clerical worker at Bow Elementary. She is charged with two 10-year felonies for allegedly writing and cashing checks totaling more than $10,000 and making withdrawals of nearly $15,000.

• Roscoe Smiley, 42, of Detroit was a DPS truck driver and is charged with a 10-year felony and two five-year felonies for allegedly accepting unauthorized pay and giving kickbacks to the employee who helped get him the funds.

• Sandra Carter, 56, of Harper Woods was a teacher's aide at Denby High and is charged with three 10-year felonies for accepting unauthorized pay and giving a kickback to the employee who made the pay possible.

• Maria Roscoe, also known as Maria Starkey, 46, of Eastpointe, booked coach's pay in the DPS Controls Office. She is charged with three 10-year felonies and two five-year felonies for allegedly fraudulently authorizing more than $50,000 in payments to Carter and $2,400 to Smiley.

• Tammi Henry, 39, of Detroit was a food services coordinator at Burns Elementary and is charged with three 10-year felonies for allegedly stealing more than $400 in lunch money.

http://www.freep.com/article/2009081...arged-in-probe

Worthy and Bobb promise more to follow. Reports hint that over 170 investigations are in the hopper, including current and former School Board members.

Jimmy Womack ... you listening?

[R8RBOB]

Mr. Bobb came to town with a big broom and he is seeking to sweep out the crooks that have suck DPS dry. The idea of bringing in a emergency financial manager has exposed the dirt that DPS has hidden for years.

Perhaps Mayor Bing should developed the same proactive attitude that Mr. Bobb has in searching for dollars that was sucked from the city. I can imagine the millions that will be discovered from under bed mattresses.

[daddeeo]

This is just the start in cleaning out the cesspool the DPS has become.
Seeing how all the money is gone, this will [[hopefully) punish and shame wrong doers but also act as a determent if the DPS survives. People need to go to jail for this crap.

[Novine]

Clerical workers and teachers aides? Is that really where the millions went missing?

[artds]

This news would be shocking if it had occurred anywhere else besides Detroit.

Even in Chicago this would be an outrage.

[Locke09]

This news would be shocking if it had occurred anywhere else besides Detroit.

Even in Chicago this would be an outrage.

Stealing from kids, especially from education funds, is an atrocity whenever and wherever it happens. Probably only the people doing the stealing, and the people benefiting from the stealing, don't consider it an outrage.

So there is no need to pretend it doesn't happen in Chicago, because a quick Google search reveals multiple incidences of it in Chicago, over the years, as well.

It happens in cities and suburbs all over. It has been rumored in
Detroit for many years, and the biggest atrocity is that no one followed up on it before now. I recall teachers telling me abut principals stealing, or overlooking stealing by their friends and family in the office. At the time, I didn't know whether to believe them or just chalk it up to disgruntlement.