In 2018, Crowley ISD was caught in the middle of a scam that cost them $2 million of taxpayer money.
But the CBS 11 I-Team has learned that recently it received a check for $653,000, money that was stolen by scammers.It received a phishing email that appeared to have come from a company it was doing business with.No suspicion was raised because the email had the logo, it also appeared to have come from someone who the district employee knew.
The school district just had lost $1.9 million on what appeared to be a business email compromise scheme. “Kind of a lonely guy. Somebody that spent a lot of time on the internet and Facebook in particular, engaging with with people that he had never met before.” Allen said. “He was a mechanic by trade but didn’t really do any work recently.”In an interview with Agent Wilkinson and Detective Allen, Conkright told them that he did all this for love– for his girlfriend who was using the name Lola Mullins.
“These criminals do the research,” said Detective Allen. “So David Sanders is actually an attorney in Texas, but he has no connection to the case.” “The thing that set him apart with us was he didn’t feel like he was going to get his fair share of the money,” Agent Wilkinson said. “He admitted to us was that he took a large chunk of the funds about $130,000 and he bought himself a BMW, because in his own words, he didn’t think he was going to get his fair cut.”
In 2020, Conkright was tried and convicted in federal court in Florida for money laundering and sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
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