Stories Related to Wortham: Possible Criminal Actions Over Beaumont Isd's 2007 Bond Are Limited

By the time Beaumont ISD's board of managers learned about rampant mismanagement of the district's 2007 bond money, most of the statutes of limitations had run out, limiting possible criminal actions against former administrators and hired contractors, said Jefferson County District Attorney Bob Wortham on Friday. According to Brown, Elamad signed off on reports saying contractor HRE completed renovations when the company had not, and he potentially conspired with former BISD Superintendent Carrol Thomas and former Chief Business Officer Robert Zingelmann to cover up HRE's failure to finish the Smith project. According to the report, Elamad was paid more than $1.2 million from February 2009 to January 2011. [...] the state did not review the spending in any of the districts, leaving no oversight of the grant funds. Because the state never sought repayment, misuse of the "estimated" funds could not be proven, Wortham said. Wortham said the previous school board, which was ousted in July 2014 by the state education commissioner and replaced with a board of managers, "did not authorize (school board) lawyers to pursue" investigations of the bond funds when taxpayers first started questioning how the money was being spent.

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