Note that they were still preparing food for the children even though they didn't come to school. I don't know what the budget looked like, relatively. I know that around here they were delivering the food, so that seems like it would cost more. Delivery always costs more, right?
You can't even sell over $600 on Etsy without triggering an IRS audit, but losing $300k for the government is just an oopsie-poopsie.
she stole $1.5m but they only caught on 1.5 years later because the budget was unusually high since she got greedy.
she probably worked the grift very easily early on since she was getting a full budget for kids who weren't coming to school because of covid.
Note that they were still preparing food for the children even though they didn't come to school. I don't know what the budget looked like, relatively. I know that around here they were delivering the food, so that seems like it would cost more. Delivery always costs more, right?
article says they kept the food at the school available for pickup.