"If anyone could have stopped the fraud at Philadelphia Academy Charter School, a federal judge said yesterday, it was the school's former board president.
U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo C. Robreno praised Rosemary DiLacqua as an intelligent and educated police officer, with more than 25 years of distinguished service and a reputation for toughness, who was a specialist in detecting fraud. She could have told school founder Brien N. Gardiner and former chief executive Kevin M. O'Shea 'enough is enough,' Robreno added.
Instead, DiLacqua, 51, accepted $34,000 in secret payments from the two and kept quiet."
