GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.
From the Des Moines Register:
A federal grand jury today indicted four people on fraud and conspiracy charges for their roles in the CIETC salary scandal. Another former executive pleaded guilty to two federal charges.
The indictments come 10 months after the now-defunct Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium, a Des Moines job-training agency, came under scrutiny from federal investigators over the use of taxpayer money to pay top executives and others $1.8 million in less than three years. Those to be indicted are:
• Former Des Moines City Councilman and CIETC chairman Archie Brooks, who approved the most questionable expenditures.
• The agency’s former chief executive Ramona Cunningham, who was paid $368,000 in one year alone.
• Karen Tesdell, CIETC’s former accountant. She was paid $129,168 last yar, which auditors called excessive.
• Jane Barto, Former deputy director of Iowa Workforce Development. She resigned after auditors alleged that her friendship with top CIETC officials might have undermined her agency’s attempts to oversee CIETC.
The 26-page indictment outlines 27 counts of conspiracy, fraud and obstruction against Cunningham; 26 counts against Tesdell; 19 against Brooks and two against Barto.
The four will be arraigned on Jan. 25. The single most serious charge, faced by all except Barto, carries a maximum 10 years in a Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
I see where Tom "Rubber Stamp" Vlassis hasn't been charged.
Yet.
Nothing on crooked dunderhead Steven "Ako Abdul-Samad" Green either.
I am happy to see GED recipient and former $368,000 a year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham get indicted.
Best of all, perennial Des Moines thug Archie Brooks was busted.
I don't know what else to say. Good work, Feds!
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