"The former board president of Philadelphia Academy Charter School reported to a federal prison in the Florida Panhandle on Monday to begin serving a 366-day sentence for mail fraud.
Rosemary DiLacqua, 51, has appealed her sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. On Friday, the court denied her request to remain free on bail pending her appeal.
The retired Philadelphia police detective was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna, Fla., about 65 miles west of Tallahassee. Marianna has a medium-security prison for male inmates, but DiLacqua was assigned to an adjacent, minimum-security prison camp for women, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said.
In July, DiLacqua pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud, theft of honest services, for accepting $34,000 in secret payments and loans from the charter school's founder and former chief executive and later awarding them raises and lucrative contracts."
Rosemary DiLacqua, 51, has appealed her sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. On Friday, the court denied her request to remain free on bail pending her appeal.
The retired Philadelphia police detective was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Marianna, Fla., about 65 miles west of Tallahassee. Marianna has a medium-security prison for male inmates, but DiLacqua was assigned to an adjacent, minimum-security prison camp for women, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said.
In July, DiLacqua pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud, theft of honest services, for accepting $34,000 in secret payments and loans from the charter school's founder and former chief executive and later awarding them raises and lucrative contracts."
