{"id":1988999,"date":"2023-08-02T17:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-boston-school-principal-spent-40k-in-school-funds-on-vacations-feds-say\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T21:28:44","slug":"former-boston-school-principal-spent-40k-in-school-funds-on-vacations-feds-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-boston-school-principal-spent-40k-in-school-funds-on-vacations-feds-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Boston Principal Allegedly Misused $40k School Funds on Vacations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-boston-school-principal-spent-40k-in-school-funds-on-vacations-feds-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Boston Principal Charged \u200bwith Stealing School\u200b Funds for Lavish Vacations<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200d former principal of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/boston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston<\/a> \u200d area high school is\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-house-speaker-pelosis-laptop-missing-w-va-delegate-charged-for-his-role-in-capitol-breach\/\" title=\"Reports: House Speaker Pelosi\u2019s laptop missing &#038; W. Va. delegate charged for his role in Capitol breach\">facing federal charges<\/a> for allegedly stealing\u2063 nearly $40,000 in school funds to take\u200d lavish personal vacations to the island of Barbados.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Naia Wilson has been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/02\/massachusetts-principal-naia-wilson-charged-with-spending-nearly-40k-of-school-funds-on-all-inclusive-tropical-vacations\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> with\u2062 one\u200b count of wire fraud for allegedly scheming \u2064to\u2063 defraud Boston \u200dPublic Schools\u200c of $38,806, the U.S. \u2064Attorney\u2019s Office for Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ma\/pr\/former-principal-new-mission-school-charged-misusing-nearly-40000-school-funds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a\u200d press release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wilson, 60, was\u200c the principal of New Mission High School in Hyde\u200c Park \u2063just south\u200b of \u2064Boston from 2006 through 2019.<\/p>\n<p>New Mission is a pilot school, meaning it has freedom to decide how \u2063to spend\u2062 the\u2062 lump sums per student it \u200dreceives from Boston Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p>In order to steal school \u200dfunds, Wilson would have had to \u200bmake\u2062 a formal check request to Boston Public Schools\u2019 external fiscal\u200c agent who was managing those funds \u2062in an outside bank account, \u200dprosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson did exactly this, prosecutors alleged, saying she repeatedly\u200c requested checks \u2063starting September 2016 and continuing \u200cuntil \u2062at\u2063 least May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She requested that the checks \u200dbe\u200b issued to other individuals, fraudulently endorsed the checks to \u2062herself, and deposited them into her personal back account, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson requested\u200d checks \u2062that she used to pay for two all-inclusive personal vacations \u200bto Barbados for Wilson\u200d and\u200b her\u2063 friends in 2016 and 2018,\u2063 including hotels and airfare, according\u200d to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wilson has\u200b agreed\u200d to plead guilty and pay restitution and \u2063will\u200c appear in federal court in Boston soon on a date not \u2064yet announced.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Wilson faces\u200b up \u2064to \u200c20 \u2064years in prison, up to\u2064 three \u200dyears\u2064 of\u2064 supervised release, \u2064and a fine of up to\u200c $250,000.<\/p>\n<h3>Consequences\u2064 for Abusing Public Trust<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s office announced the charges along\u2064 with\u2062 Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox \u200band Boston Division FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Christopher DiMenna.<\/p>\n<p>Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy said that \u201cprotecting children\u201d is one of the \u2062\u201cvery top\u200c priorities\u201d of his office and\u200d \u201cthreats come \u200bin \u200dall forms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow this type of gross abuse\u2062 of authority and responsibility fly under\u2062 the radar. Individuals who take \u2063advantage\u2064 of public\u200b trust to line their pockets will be investigated and \u2064held accountable,\u201d Levy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s charges should serve\u200d as a reminder to municipal workers everywhere that there are serious\u200b consequences for such shameful conduct, and it\u200b is the taxpayers\u2064 they serve and answer to \u200bat \u200bthe\u2063 end of \u2064the day,\u201d FBI agent Christopher DiMenna said.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Mary Skipper, who has led Boston Public Schools since last year, said\u2062 Tuesday that the \u200ddistrict takes \u201ca steward of public funds very seriously\u201d and is committed to prioritizing students\u200d when \u2062spending its\u200c funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince these incidents, \u2064the Boston Public\u2063 Schools has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-boston-school-principal-spent-40k-in-school-funds-on-vacations-feds-say\/\" title=\"Ex-Boston Principal Allegedly Misused k School Funds on Vacations\">implemented \u2063additional\u200c internal protocols<\/a> and procedures to \u2064prevent \u2064a \u200bsituation like this \u2064from occurring again,\u201d Skipper said.<\/p>\n<p>New Mission High School serves about 260 students from grades 7 to 12.<\/p>\n<p>The charges \u2062against Wilson follow \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-considers-allowing-video-of-george-floyds-2019-arrest-in-trial\/\" title=\"Judge considers allowing video of George Floyd\u2019s 2019 arrest in trial\">high-profile case<\/a> last year of a principal\u200c embezzling school funds.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget Coates, 48, the former principal of St.\u200c Thomas More Catholic School\u2063 in Washington, D.C., was charged with wire fraud and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/former-school-principal-sentenced-prison-embezzling-175000-meant-student-activities-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> \u2064 to 30 months in prison \u200cfor embezzling $175,000.<\/p>\n<p>Coates\u200d spent the stolen school\u200b funds on\u200b designer fashion\u2064 from luxury brands and to help her qualify for a home mortgage loan, prosecutors said in August \u2063when she\u2064 was sentenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-principal of a Boston high school, Naia Wilson, is accused of wire fraud for allegedly embezzling $38,806 from the school funds. She used the money to fund extravagant trips to Barbados. 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