Georgia School Big Gets 8 Years for Being a Crook

(Atlanta, Georgia) Former Georgia State School Superintendent, Linda Schrenko, accepted a plea agreement halfway through her trial for fraud and money laundering and was sentenced by United States District Judge Clarence Cooper to eight years in federal prison.

She was also ordered to pay $414,000 in restitution, to give up her personal vehicle, and to pay a $200 special assessment. In exchange, Schrenko ratted out her accomplices, Deputy Superintendent Merle Temple and Stephan Botes, owner of a computer consulting company.

Get this. Schrenko and her accomplices stole over a half million dollars of money pegged for educating deaf kids and laundered it into her election campaign for governor, which she lost. The money came from federal taxpayer funds. Schrenko also paid over $9,000 for a face lift out of the money.

Schrenko is 56 now and she'll be close to collecting Social Security when she gets out. Her partners in crime, Temple and Botes, are scheduled to be sentenced next month.

Blind ambition and no conscience leads to ruin.