Former Ga. Schools Chief Pleads Guilty

[Judi Lynn]

Former Ga. Schools Chief Pleads Guilty
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer

May 10, 2006, 11:12 AM EDT

ATLANTA -- A former state schools superintendent pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud and money laundering, ending her trial on charges alleging she embezzled $600,000 in federal education aid to fund a failed campaign for governor and pay for a face lift.

Linda Schrenko, 56, will serve eight years in prison under the plea bargain. She also agreed to hand over other evidence and drop her right to appeal.

The former Georgia schools superintendent had been on trial for about two weeks in federal court. Prosecutors alleged the money was used to underwrite Schrenko's failed 2002 campaign for governor, cosmetic surgery and for other extras, including a television, computer and a down payment on a car.

In testimony earlier this week, witnesses said Schrenko told staff in her daughter's dental practice to fraudulently endorse checks to her campaign.

Schrenko made history in 1994 when she became the first woman elected to a statewide, nonjudicial post in Georgia. She also was one of the first Republicans elected to such an office in a state that had been dominated by Democrats since Reconstruction.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-superintendent-trial,0,3560242.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[shain from kane]

1. Ask for a refund. n/t

[warrens]

2. If we're not careful...

The Republicans may be as feared as the Crips and Bloods and Aryan Nation in our nation's finer prisons. There sure seem to be a lot of them changing addresses.

[napi21]

3. So let's see Cox use this as a fight against the Pub. Perdue!

It also should help push the corruption issue against Ralph Reed and his fight for Lt. Gov!!!!

[callous taoboy]

4. We need a big collection of MEpublican mugshots to put on a poster

I'm counting the silverware after my MEpublican relatives come to visit. I swear it.

[underpants]

5. Here is a classic

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/

[callous taoboy]

6. Remember when...

Ollie looked like a nut-job to a majority of the public? Now he is the prototype. He drives by me in his Big Truck every day, sometimes with an American flag flapping on a plastic stick. He flips me off at peace marches. He has morphed into my dad and both of my ex-hippy brothers.

[lumpy]

9. Thanks for the link undypants

Helpfull in a discussion we've been having re. Ollie North.

[Laelth]

7. Ah, the GOP way ...

Lie, cheat, and steal your way to the top. For every Schrenko that gets caught, nine MEpublicans get away with it.

Still, it's nice to see this scourge removed from the public life of my home state.


Now, can we get rid of these three pustules?

-Laelth

[onehandle]

8. This is Big news here in Georgia.

A high profile, moralist, fundie Republican in 72 point type on the front of our newspaper.

"Schrenko pleads guilty to fraud"

Nice.