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Jerome Oberlton, the former chief information officer for the Baltimore City school system whose office renovation and credit card expenditures came under fire in the months before he left his post to work in the Dallas school district, is expected to face a federal indictment, according to the Dallas Morning News.

 

In his nearly two year stint in Baltimore, Oberlton came under fire after two Baltimore Sun investigations found questionable spending in his office.

The first was $250,000 used to outfit Oberlton's executive suite, at the same time the district was lobbying lawmakers for billions of dollars to fix the system's crumbling school buildings. City schools officials called the renovation, "a bad judgment call."

Months later, amid a Sun investigation into the district's credit card spending, the school district forced Oberlton to cut a $5,000 personal check to pay back credit card expenditures incurred by his office, that included trips to retail stores such as Bath & Body Works, Ross and Walmart to buy snacks and refreshments, and gifts and decorations for holiday banquets, birthdays and baby shower celebrations. Other charges that came under fire included a $7,300 retreat, a $500 dinner at the Inner Harbor's Fogo de Chao, and a $500 quarterly meeting for staff at Paradise Indian Cuisine.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/blog/bal-former-city-schools-it-director-to-face-federal-indictment-20130529,0,100171.story#ixzz2UjA3z7Fp

 

 

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