A former official with Montgomery Public Schools has been convicted of four counts related to theft of property.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says former MPS Interim Chief School Financial Officer Brenda Palmer has pleased guilty to two felony ethics charges and two felony counts of lying to the attorney general’s office about a matter under investigation.Palmer had previously been convicted of first-degree theft of property and will be sentenced as a habitual felony offender, Marshall said.
Marshall says James submitted fraudulent invoices from nearly a dozen non-existent companies that purported to provide various MPS entities with books, professional development and other goods or services. He says Palmer used her position to ensure they were paid without attracting attention.
When examiners with the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts began their yearly audit of the MPS system in 2019, they requested supporting documents for many of the fraudulent checks. Palmer was asked to help produce some of those check files. Instead of providing those check files, Palmer shredded them and claimed that she bypassed procedures because she just wanted to get vendors paid.
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