A recent state audit had chastised the district for its “culture of financial non-compliance” allowing Devin Fletcher, former chief management and equity officer, to embezzle more than $824,000 from the district.
However, internal records suggest school leaders had already known about the fraud long before revealing it to law enforcement, according to The Frontier, a nonprofit news organization.
“Months before a high-level embezzlement scheme at Tulsa Public Schools was uncovered, former superintendent Deborah Gist and her deputies were quietly arranging an exit plan for the official behind it — and using secret payments to a private consultant to manage the transition,” Garrett Yalch wrote.
