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Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of Pensacola Charter School Operator for Misusing $750,000 in State Education Funds | Scathing Purple Musings

Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of Pensacola Charter School Operator for Misusing $750,000 in State Education Funds | Scathing Purple Musings:


Appeals Court Upholds Conviction of Pensacola Charter School Operator for Misusing $750,000 in State Education Funds

Another inconvenient reminder for Florida’s charter school cheerleaders comes in this story from the Pensacola News-Journal:
The First District Court of Appeal has denied a Pensacola businessman’s appeal of his 2010 conviction on money laundering and racketeering charges.
John Wyche was sentenced in 2011 to serve more than six years in prison for defrauding a charter school.
The appeals court didn’t issue an opinion. “They as a whole, as a group, affirmed the judgment and decision of the trial court,” Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar said Monday.
Wyche was the director of the Life Skills Center, a charter school for underprivileged children, and