Ramona Took A Deal

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:

Former job-training executive Ramona Cunningham has struck a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on charges that she conspired with others to misuse $1.5 million in taxpayer money.

The 53-year-old former director of the Central Iowa Employment and Training Consortium was scheduled for trial July 8 on 30 charges of fraud and conspiracy. Her attorney, Bill Kutmus, on Monday confirmed the plea deal but said ethics rules do not allow him to divulge details...

...Prosecutors allege that nearly $2 million in public money was misspent over a three-year period, with much of it going to huge salaries and bonuses for CIETC's top executives.

William Kutmus, abiding by ethics rules.

Now, that's rich!

Really, now.

It's too bad Ramona didn't really try to kill herself. That would have saved the taxpayers a lot more money down the road. But since we all know that Ramona Cunningham is a phony and a fraud, I'm about 99.9999% sure that the GED-recipient and Bill Kutmus were just playing it up for shits and giggles.

....But Kutmus is going to abide by ethics rules and not tell the press anything.

That..... that may be the sickest thing I've heard in a long, long time.

I'm wondering how far the prosecutors bent over for Kutmus.

I bet she has to pay a fine, which she'll never pay. Because she's broke, remember?

And I bet she gets something like a 5 year sentence, of which she'll probably serve maybe a year or 16 months.

That would not surprise me. Ramona Cunningham is a Democrat, she made a lot of money, got Kutmus to defend her, and she never ratted anybody out.

Contrast this to Dixie Shanahan (now Dixie Duty), who shot her husband to death after he repeatedly beat her over a long period of time, threatened to kill her numerous times, and threatened to kill their unborn baby. Dixie's only crime, according to the rich bitches on the Iowa Parole Board, was not taking a deal, and she ended up with a 50 year sentence. Allegedly pro-woman and now-former-Governor Tom Vilsack sort-of commuted her sentence to a minimum of 10 years.


Dixie Shanahan (now Dixie Duty), after her first husband beat her up