Last month, a grand jury in Florida indicted employees of Newpoint Education Partners and three other companies for grand theft, money laundering, and other crimes. The company, started by former employees of the White Hat management company in Ohio, lost the charters for several schools that it was running where the alleged crimes occurred.
Now, two more charter schools are cutting their ties with Newport, following an investigation by a local TV news station.
One week after an 8 on Your Side investigation uncovered $235,000 in bogus school loans, two charter schools funded with state tax dollars in Jacksonville have decided to sever ties with a for-profit management company we’ve been investigating for months because of the financial chaos it helped create in Pinellas charter schools.
The Jacksonville charter school loans by Newpoint Education Partners which are cited in a 2015 financial audit do not exist, something that caught even the treasurer of San Jose Preparatory High School and Academy by surprise after 8 on Your Side uncovered and reported it.
Are there any law enforcement officials in Jacksonville, or is it left to the media to investigate criminal activity?
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The publicly funded public police forces are also facing budge cuts and are being replaced by corporate police.
The Rutherford Institute reports that many of the laws that protect us from police abuse do not apply to the private sector —- sounds familiar doesn’t it?
And the traditional public police in the country are now outnumbered by private sector, for profit, corporate police (more than 2 to 1).
“This is the growing dilemma we now face as private police officers outnumber public officers (more than two to one), and the corporate elite transforms the face of policing in America into a privatized affair that operates beyond the reach of the Fourth Amendment.”
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/private_police_mercenaries_for_the_american_police_state
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Lloyd, I appreciate your comment. The local press just broke a story of a non-profit of benefit to members of the Metropolitan Sewer District. There was a borderless flow of money from taxpayers and MSD contractors into the foundation and then out again to benefit the officers of the foundation, kith and kin of select workers in the Metropolitan Sewer District, as well as “preferred” and at least one member of city council. Senior officials within the MSD were on the board of the foundation. The conflicts of interest flourished because no one wanted to look too long or too hard. The same is true for charters in Ohio…and other cases abound.
In the Jacksonville case, I think this would not be a police matter but an auditor of state issue first, responding to a whistleblower, in this case the press, with any findings from an investigation (if pursued) kicked along to the attorney general. Since these state officials may be political appointments or loyalists, there is often a dead end.
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Local government services are defunded by men like the Koch “anarcho-totalitarians”, to eliminate protections of the common goods. It’s similar to a maiming that allows predators to feed. By driving down wages, through concentration of wealth, citizens can’t afford the common goods and services that benefit and protect them.
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