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U.S. Attorney: Charter School Founder and CEO Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years in Federal Prison for Misappropriating $3.2 Million in Public Education Funds
May 20, 2019
LOS ANGELES, California, May 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California issued the following news release:

The founder and ex-chief executive officer of Celerity Educational Group, a Koreatown-based non-profit owner and operator of charter schools, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to misappropriate approximately $3.2 million in public education funds allocated to some of her company's schools.

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