The fraud scheme involved having private-school students to be enrolled as full-time virtual public school students in order to receive state education funding.
Updated:Former Athens City Schools superintendent William L. “Trey” Holladay III on Thursday received the maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution for his part in a multimillion dollar fraud scheme where he ordered private school students to be enrolled as full-time virtual public school students in order to receive state education funding.
Former Limestone County Superintendent Tom Sisk was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on Tuesday, fined $15,000 and ordered to pay $13,000 in restitution.paid to Athens City Schools for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years.
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