LA charter school operators face embezzlement charges
Los Angeles prosecutors have accused the Russian operators of a successful San Fernando Valley charter school with stealing more than $200,000 in taxpayer funds.
On Thursday, Ivy Academia's Eugene Selivanov, 38, and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, 33, were charged with committing multiple counts of embezzlement, money laundering and filing false tax returns at the school from 2004 to 2009.
Ivy Academia serves roughly 1,100 students from preschool to 12th grade. The charter was started in 2004 by Berkovich and Selivanov.
The investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office was triggered by the findings of a 2007 audit by LA Unified School District's Office of the Inspector General.
That audit found numerous instances where Selivanov transferred public funds from the charter to private businesses he and Berkovich controlled. The transactions were allegedly done online and were never recorded in
Harman, others in Congress hold stock in companies they oversee
On Thursday, Ivy Academia's Eugene Selivanov, 38, and his wife, Tatyana Berkovich, 33, were charged with committing multiple counts of embezzlement, money laundering and filing false tax returns at the school from 2004 to 2009.
Ivy Academia serves roughly 1,100 students from preschool to 12th grade. The charter was started in 2004 by Berkovich and Selivanov.
The investigation by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office was triggered by the findings of a 2007 audit by LA Unified School District's Office of the Inspector General.
That audit found numerous instances where Selivanov transferred public funds from the charter to private businesses he and Berkovich controlled. The transactions were allegedly done online and were never recorded in
Harman, others in Congress hold stock in companies they oversee
Members of California's congressional delegation have invested millions of dollars in companies that their congressional committees oversee, according to a Washington Post story that dropped yesterday.
The story specifically calls out Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat who is among Congress' most wealthy representatives:
The story specifically calls out Rep. Jane Harman, the California Democrat who is among Congress' most wealthy representatives:
Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), for instance, served as chairman of a subcommittee responsible for overseeing technology-oriented efforts to improve homeland security, intelligence, information sharing and risk assessment in 2008. At the time, she disclosed more than $1 million in holding
