Oliver Levy and Surendra Kumar were charged at Westchester County Court on Wednesday, Jan. 22
Two top officials at a school in New York have been accused of spending funds for at-risk students on personal items.
On Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Westchester County District Attorney announced in a press release that two former officials at Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District — which serves at-risk students from kindergarten to 12th grade — had been charged with multiple public corruption offenses after over $50,000 of school money was alleged to have been spent on items such as jewelry and luxury handbags.
Per a felony complaint, cited in the press release, the school district’s former superintendent, Oliver Levy, and former security system specialist, Surendra Kumar, allegedly purchased 168 gift cards and “instead of spending the full sum of these funds on school-related expenses, the defendants are accused of diverting over $50,000 from the gift cards to personal expenses, such as jewelry, luxury handbags, private school fees for relatives, and veterinary services.”…