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  • Charter school founder sentenced to prison for stealing funds

    08/25/2006 6:10:04 AM PDT · by Clovis_Skeptic · 11 replies · 438+ views
    The Mercury News ^ | Aug. 24, 2006 | Sean Webby
    FRESNO - The founder of a California charter school was sentenced today to 14 years in state prison for siphoning off taxpayer and private funds she was supposed to be using to educate disadvantaged children from the San Joaquin Valley to Sunnyvale. Fresno County Superior Court Judge R. L. Putnam said former Gateway Academy Superintendent Khadijah Ghafur had shown sophistication, planning and leadership and an ``absolute complete lack of remorse in the face of overwhelming evidence of guilt'' for her embezzlement schemes. Today's sentencing of Ghafur and another Gateway administrator, who received probation, close the cooked books on the Fresno-based...