Thursday, October 7, 2010

Los Angeles Unified School District administrator charged with embezzling funds

A former Los Angeles Unified School District administrative assistant was charged today with embezzling more than $100,000 from the elementary school where she was assigned.Lisa Ann Castro, 46, is set to be arraigned Friday at the downtown Los Angeles courthouse on two felony counts of misappropriation of public funds, three counts of embezzlement and four counts of forgery.Castro worked at Halldale Elementary in Torrance, where she was given responsibility for two school accounts shortly after being assigned there in 2005, according to Deputy District Attorney Gary Nielsen.She also was made treasurer of the PTA and given access to its checking account, he said.Castro is accused of stealing from the three accounts between June 2005 and September 2009, and forging signatures on more than 100 checks by using the names of two principals and two PTA officials.Castro, who was arrested Wednesday by LAUSD police, was jailed in lieu of $135,000 bail.

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  1. steve mccray, stephen mccray

    Founder of Venice Children's Cirle, Educational Support Network and SCAAS (Southern California Academy of Arts and Sciences) with wyfe Melonka Renaldo aka Melonka McCray.
    Use Venice Children's Circle and Educational Support network to steal state of California grant monies (public funds!) into own pocket.
    His pool, deck, room additions, basketball court, Dell computers, sporting goods, tools sheds where they keep their "secret" fyles from SCAAS, paint, $30,000 recording studio, Ford Econoline van, commerciall freezer and fridge valued at over $5,000 a piece that are all in his house at 4119 Charlene Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90043 were all property of the school before it was shutdown by LAUSD officials (below you will find a document the McCray crime family tried to have destroyed).
    While principal at William Green elementary school, Lawndale, CA he made $6,000 a month while never making an appearance at the Charter school - more than $10,000 a month. But this was not enough, he and wife Melonka Renaldo McCray (Melonka McCray) further
    took grant money and used it to renovate their recently purchased home at 4119 Charlene Dr, 90043, as well as refinancse their home in Winter Park, Florida.
    They cheated fellow teachers at SCAAS Charter out of their tax returns, in retaliation for the school getting shutdown and even went so far as to instruct a few students to damage a teacher's car as a consequence for the teacher speaking with LAUSD about issues at the school mrs Lee and nelson magana and others who ran the school and did a good job.

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