Burns sentenced to six years in prison in Cleveland
14 Jul 2010
As an update to those of you following this story, reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, (link):
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Daniel Burns, former chief operating officer of the Cleveland school district, was sentenced this morning to six years in prison.
He also was ordered to pay more than $223,000 in restitution and finesBurns was convicted in June of one count each of racketeering and theft in office and four counts of tampering with records. The jury found that Burns, 54, faked the purchase of six duplicating machines that didn’t exist and paid for consulting services that were not performed. The theft totaled nearly $155,000.
You may also be interested in some of the comments posted on the Plain Dealer website in response to the story.
Hope he sees prison bars for every single day of those six years, but somehow I doubt he will.
July 15th, 2010 at 1:07 pm