Breaking: How @mcps Administrators Can Embezzle Funds Without Detection. It Would Take MCPS 3 Years to Review Credit Card Bills for Each Cardholder.

In FY 2018, the MCPS credit card bill was $9,817,320.

In FY 2019, one year later, the MCPS credit card bill had just about doubled to $18,020,543.  Why? 

We now know that at the same time the credit card bill was doubling, MCPS education funds were being embezzled and diverted by a vendor to make payments to MCPS administrators, and MCPS credit cards were being misused by administrators. But that embezzlement and misuse wouldn't be discovered for years.  

Is the Board of Education exerting any oversight over MCPS spending?  No they can't. We now know it is virtually impossible for the Board of Education to have any oversight over MCPS spending. 

We filed a simple request for the expense reports for 7 administrators and a list of the cars assigned to each.  MCPS' public information office has responded to us that it would take over 30 hours and over 7 weeks to provide us with these documents for just 7 administrators.

  

At this rate it would take MCPS 3 years to review expense reports for each current credit card holder.  

MCPS has given out credit cards to thousands of employees over the years.  How those credit cards were used is a mystery.  The embezzlement in the MCPS Transportation Department confirms that embezzlement can go undetected for years.  How much more misuse, fraud or waste has occurred in this unmonitored spending of MCPS Operating Budget funds? 

If you want to find out about these 7 administrators, it will cost you $1,298.

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