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Coruption can run rampant, especially in our local school board and community college districts....
I have been following this case since DAY 1! I have had tens of thousands of people read my blog over the past couple of years regarding the prosecution of Karen Ann Christiansen and Jeffrey Hubbard, two of the seediest officials in public education in the entire United States. Share your THOUGHTS about today's conviction...please post this on your FB or Social Media site.
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From the Media Division at the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
A former Beverly Hills Unified School District official was convicted today of conflict of interest and taking more than $1.3 million through a building management contract she steered to herself, the District Attorney’s Public Integrity Division announced. Deputy District Attorney Max Huntsman said Karen Anne Christiansen, 53, was convicted of four counts of conflict of interest with an excessive taking allegation of more than $1.3 million found true. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen Marcus immediately ordered Christiansen remanded into custody and increased her bail to $400,000. Sentencing for the defendant is scheduled for Jan. 5 in Department 102 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Christiansen faces a maximum state prison term of eight years. Christiansen – the former facilities director for the district who was hired in 2004 at an annual salary of $113,000 – encouraged the district to borrow money for a building campaign while planning to steer the management contract to herself. Christiansen’s company, Strategic Concepts, ultimately received the contract and began drawing more than $200,000 a month until she was terminated. Christiansen also negotiated contracts with an energy firm, Johnson Controls, to do work for the district while simultaneously negotiating contracts with her own company and Johnson Controls. Co-defendant Jeffrey Hubbard, 54, the former superintendent of the Beverly Hills Unified School District, faces three counts of misappropriation of public funds in connection with the case. Hubbard – now superintendent of the Newport Mesa Unified School District – was charged in December 2010 with two counts of misappropriation of public funds for allegedly giving Christiansen more than $20,000 in unauthorized gifts and giving her increases in her car allowance that were unauthorized by the board. On Oct. 11, Hubbard was arraigned on a Grand Jury indictment charging him with a new count of misappropriation of public funds. The new charge stems from the defendant’s alleged direction of a subordinate to give a raise to a female employee without school board authorization. His next court date is Dec. 12 for a pretrial.
2 comments:
How come you don't have the most current and accurate information about your banner headline case. As you know since you followed the case very closely, the California Appellate Court reversed this woman's conviction and vacated all penalties handed down by the Judge who just happened to be a former DA.
The DA appealed the Appellate Court's unanimous decision and earlier this month, the California Supreme Court declined to take up the appeal. Thus, they agreed with the Appellate Court's ruling. I guess that makes the DA and the Judge look like idiots for having wasted the taxpayers monies pursuing this person. Thank God for this system of justice which protects us from the real conflict of interests in our criminal justice system. Shame of you for falling for their garbage and your self righteous claims of justice having been served. Obviously, when two sets of Judges shoot your theory down, it means you are dead wrong
I hope she is awarded millions in damages for this stupidity. To bad she can't sue you as well.
Headlnes Beverly Hills: Jury Rules Against BHUSD, Awards Christiansen’s LLC Strategic Concepts $13.7 Million. Good for her she deserves it and of coarse it wont end there. She can still go for legal fees and malicious prosecution. She will end up with end up with over $30 mill I bet. Why not do a story about Brian Goldberg and Jerry Gross apparently they are responsible. Goldberg was just thrown in jail for shoving down a teenager and has been convicted of fraud but remains on the school board.
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