{"id":200375,"date":"2021-04-28T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/28\/this-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-16\/"},"modified":"2021-04-28T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:39:00","slug":"this-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/28\/this-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-16\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Feature, Not a Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the education policies of Obama Administration, and its support for the most rapacious of the chrter school looters, it should be no surprise that&nbsp; Seth Andrew, former, &#8220;Senior advisor and superintendent-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Education, &#8221; and , &#8220;enior advisor in the Office of Educational Technology,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/27\/us\/seth-andrew-fraud-money-laundering-charter-school.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">was charged with stealing from the charter school that he founded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a perfect metaphor for the increasingly corrupt and increasingly segregated world of&nbsp; charter schools:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">A former senior adviser in the Obama administration was arrested Tuesday on charges that he stole more than $200,000 from a network of charter schools that he founded and used the money to get a lower interest rate on a mortgage for a Manhattan apartment, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The founder, Seth Andrew, 42, is accused of taking money from bank accounts controlled by Democracy Prep Public Schools, which teaches mostly low-income students of color in New York and other states, and using it for the purchase of a $2 million apartment, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Andrew is charged with one count each of wire fraud, money laundering and making a false statement to a bank. The first two charges both carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and the third carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, according to a statement on Tuesday from Audrey Strauss, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the assistant director-in-charge of the New York field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday Andrew himself is learning one of life\u2019s most basic lessons \u2014 what doesn\u2019t belong to you is not yours for the taking,\u201d Mr. Sweeney said in the statement.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you know the first rule of charter schools, &#8220;The only crime is to get caught.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This guy got caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the education policies of Obama Administration, and its support for the most rapacious of the chrter school looters, it should be no surprise that&nbsp; Seth Andrew, former, &#8220;Senior advisor and superintendent-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Education, &#8221; and , &#8220;enior advisor in the Office of Educational Technology,&#8221; was charged with stealing from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[966,970,1051,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charter-schools","category-corruption","category-hypocrisy","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}