{"id":42,"date":"2006-05-10T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T00:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/05\/10\/georgia-republican-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-600k-in-federal-education-dollars\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T23:24:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T04:24:52","slug":"georgia-republican-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-600k-in-federal-education-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/05\/10\/georgia-republican-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-600k-in-federal-education-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Georgia State School Superintendent Pleads Guilty to Stealing $600k in Federal Education Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have to read to the very end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Superintendent-Trial.html\">the story<\/a> to find out that Linda Schrenko was a Republican (nevermind that she was treated as a GOP star for a while), but I don&#8217;t imagine she&#8217;ll be attending party fundraisers anytime soon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ATLANTA (AP) &#8212; A former Georgia state school superintendent accused of embezzling $600,0000 and spending it on a facelift and an unsuccessful campaign for governor pleaded guilty Wednesday and will serve eight years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Schrenko, 56, struck a plea bargain in the middle of her trial. The trial continued for two alleged accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Schrenko stole federal education money to underwrite her 2002 campaign for governor, cosmetic surgery and other extras, including a television, computer and a down payment on a car.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having spent a lot of time in Georgia schools during Schrenko&#8217;s tenure, I can assure you that this wasn&#8217;t an extra $600k she pilfered from the landscaping budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d have to read to the very end of the story to find out that Linda Schrenko was a Republican (nevermind that she was treated as a GOP star for a while), but I don&#8217;t imagine she&#8217;ll be attending party fundraisers anytime soon: ATLANTA (AP) &#8212; A former Georgia state school superintendent accused of embezzling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}