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Ex-CPS Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett Pleads Guilty To Kickback Scheme
CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme to steer more than $23 million in no-bid contracts to a former employer for $2.3 million in...
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Co-Defendants In Schools Kick-Back Scheme Plead Not Guilty
CHICAGO (AP) — Two co-defendants in a scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to an education firm in exchange for kickbacks to the former head of Chicago Public Schools have pleaded not...
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CPS Sues Byrd-Bennett, SUPES Academy For $65 Million
CHICAGO (CBS) — The Chicago Public Schools have filed a lawsuit seeking to recover $65 million from former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and SUPES Academy, the principal training firm at the center of a...
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Trial Date Set For Byrd-Bennett Co-Defendant
CHICAGO (STM) — Five months after former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty for her role in a brazen kickback scheme, an October trial has been set for one of her two...
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Player In CPS Contract Scandal Pleads Guilty
CHICAGO (STMW) — Another defendant in the SUPES scandal that ousted Chicago Public Schools’ former CEO has admitted his guilt Tuesday in the multimillion dollar kickback scheme that was captured in a...
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Thomas Vranas Wants Probation For Role In CPS Bribery Scandal
CHICAGO (CBS) — Thomas Vranas asked a judge Thursday to sentence him to probation for his role in a bribery scandal that enmeshed the Chicago Public Schools and cost former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett...
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Former Schools CEO Byrd-Bennett To Be Sentenced In Bribery Case
CHICAGO (CBS) — Nearly two years after she resigned as the head of the nation’s third largest school district, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was set to learn how long she’ll be...
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Former CPS Chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years
CHICAGO (CBS) — Admitting she was “terribly wrong” for arranging $2.3 million in kickbacks to steer a contract to her former employer while running the Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett...
View ArticleCPS Inspector General Wants Company Disqualified For Rigging Bids
CHICAGO (CBS) — A scathing report from the inspector general for the Chicago Public Schools has accused one of the district’s most powerful alternative school providers of bid-rigging, and the fallout...
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