CONVICTED EX-L.A. SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERVISOR SENTENCED.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Staff Writer A former Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. supervisor convicted of accepting bribes as part of a multimillion-dollar contracting scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. was sentenced Friday to six months in jail and ordered to repay $50,000, officials said. Charles Cline cline, in biology, any gradual change in a particular characteristic of a population of organisms from one end of the geographical range of the population to the other. , 61, a former supervisor of the district's painting unit, faced a maximum four years in jail, said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Deputy District Attorney Thomas Krag. ``Given his age, it's an OK sentence. He has no record, and he's willing to make restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the . It's a satisfactory sentence,'' Krag said. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a Japanese-American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his role in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He currently hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. also sentenced Cline to five years' probation and to serve 1,000 hours of community service, said Victoria Pipkin, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office. Cline will begin serving time in county jail Feb. 14 to allow him time to complete a project involving construction of low-income housing, Krag said. Cline is among three district maintenance workers tied to the contracting scam involving millions of dollars in federal money and Proposition BB school repair funds, Pipkin said. A district employee for more than 20 years, Cline was convicted of two counts of accepting bribes from contractors, Krag said. Cline was convicted for allowing a contractor, Damianos Hadjidamianou, 42, of North Hills to remodel re·mod·el tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els To make over in structure or style; reconstruct. his home in exchange for school contracts that were never completed, Krag said. The contractor also gave him a down payment and remodeled another home in Cline's name, Krag said. Hadjidamianou has fled the country to avoid arrest, Krag said. District employees Billy Joe Simily and Richard Steinfeld are accused of taking illegal gifts from contractors who were paid for district work which was never done between 1995 and 1997, the prosecutor said. ``We found a pattern where the work wouldn't even be done, but they were paid by the district on numerous occasions,'' Krag said. Simily and Steinfeld are each charged with two counts of receiving bribes and three counts of embezzling by a public officer, Pipkin said. |
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