Federal Grand Jury Indictment Charges 2 in Texas With Scheme to Defraud E-rate Program
An indictment by a federal grand jury in Dallas charged two people, Donna Woods of DeSoto, Texas, and Donatus Anyanwu of Dallas, with conspiracy and other offenses in a scheme to defraud the FCC's E-rate program, said Erin Nealy Cox,…
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U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, in a release Thursday. Woods is CEO of Nova Charter School, and Anyanwu is owner of ADI Engineering. The indictment alleges "Woods used her position at Nova to select ADI as Nova’s E-Rate service provider, a bid worth approximately $478,000. In return for ADl’s selection as Nova’s E-Rate service provider, Woods received a kickback of at least $5,000 from Anyanwu," the release said.