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The Characters Rick Sorrells, former DCS superintendent forced to retire in 2017 amidst questions about the finances at DCS. In April 2018, Sorrells pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and admitted to receiving more than $3 million in bribes and kickbacks in exchange for entering into contracts for $70 million in school bus camera equipment. He s expected to be sentenced in August. Larry Duncan, former president of the DCS Board and a former Dallas City Council member. He stepped down from his position as president of board for Dallas County Schools on May 17, 2017 amid ongoing investigations into a multi-million budget gap, the agency s controversial stop-arm camera program and a sale-leaseback land deal that will cost taxpayers millions. ....
Trial will determine if Kabongo was criminally responsible for assaults February 11, 2021 | 2:00 pm February 11, 2021 A criminal responsibility trial has been scheduled for a former Montgomery County Public Schools bus driver accused of sexually assaulting students with special needs while driving his routes. Etienne Kabongo, 65, was arrested in August 2018 and charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl a month earlier, an act that police said was caught on the bus’s surveillance camera. He was later charged with sexually assaulting three other students on the bus. When the incidents occurred, two of the students were ages 18 and 20; the third student was 12, according to county police. ....
The scandal at DCS stretched all the way to Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway admitted taking $450,000 in bribes, some of that in exchange for a vote that allowed the DCS bus camera program to continue operating. Caraway is serving a four and a half year sentence. At Thursday’s sentencing, Reynolds’ attorney asked Federal Judge Barbara Lynn to spare his client from prison saying that Reynolds’, “vision had been clouded” by his long time friendship with Leonard and said that Reynolds has significant medical problems that would make prison time more difficult. Judge Lynn acknowledged that Reynolds had the least involvement of the defendants in the scandal but said that he still committed a very serious crime by allowing his law license to be used in what Lynn described as the “grotesque scheme” that hurt the Dallas community. In addition to six months in prison, Judge Lynn ordered Reynolds to pay a $25,000 fine. ....