Former Bassett Unified School District superintendent appeared in court Tuesday for charges relating to money laundering more than a million from the district.
According to prosecutors, Alejandro Rojas allegedly approved more than $1 million in Del Terra invoices between April 2015 and September 2016, when he was serving as superintendent. But prosecutors say the work identified in the invoices was never done.
The money came from a voter-approved $30 million bond measure designed to fund district construction projects and program management services, prosecutors said. Del Terra had been hired by the district to oversee its construction projects, according to the District Attorney's Office."Illegally diverting voter-approved bond money from schools not only deprives our children of already scarce resources but also diminishes the public's trust in and support for our educational institutions,'' District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
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