Calif. charter school founder faces prison for fraud.A California jury has convicted a charter school founder of pilfering pil·fer v. pil·fered, pil·fer·ing, pil·fers v.tr. To steal (a small amount or item). See Synonyms at steal. v.intr. To steal or filch. public funds See Fund, 3. See also: Public and swindling investors. In late summer, Khadijah Ghafur, founder of the now defunct DEFUNCT. A term used for one that is deceased or dead. In some acts of assembly in Pennsylvania, such deceased person is called a decedent. (q.v.) Gateway Academy, was convicted of 13 felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. counts, including theft of public funds and fraud. The Mercury News, a Bay area daily, reported that Ghafur was found guilty of using $75,000 in state education funds to repay a loan to buy land for the Islamic religious community where the school resided and diverting $30,000 in public funds to a private company that the jury determined was later shifted to Ghafur's husband. The religious community in Fresno, called Baladullah, was comprised of followers followers see dairy herd. of the Pakistani cleric Sheik Mubarik Ali Gilani. Ghafur was also convicted of a fraud scheme that involved inflating the charter school's attendance to raise $630,000 from private investors. The Fresno-based charter school first ran into trouble in 2002, when officials discovered that the school was teaching religion and charging tuition. |
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