WRAL Investigates: Wake schools fraud
WRAL's complete coverage of a fraud scheme involving former employees of the Wake County Public School System's transportation department.
A former Wake County Public School System administrator is out of prison after serving time for a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
The multi-million dollar scheme put seven people in jail, some of whom are now free, but not free of the close to $700,000 in debt they owe. A WRAL News investigation found that the total amount of fraud is still unclear.
Former employees of the Wake County Public School System and a Wilson-based automotive parts supplier are working again while they serve prison sentences for their roles in a fraud scheme.
Harold Estes' request to save himself $500,000 was denied. Records show Estes owns multiple properties valued at almost $1 million.
The only person not to plead guilty in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving the Wake County Public School System lost his appeal Tuesday.
A former Wake County school system administrator cannot withdraw his guilty plea in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled.
A man convicted in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving the Wake County Public School System will have his case heard before the North Carolina Court of Appeals in September.
One year after the Wake County school system closed the book on a multimillion-dollar fraud case within its transportation department, a state inspection shows discrepancies with its bus-parts inventory continue.
The last person charged in the Wake County Schools fraud case was sentenced Tuesday to 20 to 33 months in prison.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of conspiracy in an auto parts scheme that investigators said siphoned millions of dollars from the Wake County Public School System.
After nearly a year of investigating, authorities made their first arrest in the Wake County Public Schools transportation scandal.