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DOE Employees Mother And Son Scam School For Kids With Disabilities – One America News Network

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OAN’s Abril Elfi
10:51 AM – Saturday, May 18, 2024

Investigators discovered that a mother-and-son team working for the city Department of Education (DOE) has scammed a public school for disabled children in Manhattan out of almost $8,500.

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Marlene Delgado, 62, works as a school secretary at PS M169, a K–12 institution with 305 special needs students.

According to a recently released March 23rd, 2023, report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, she authorized payments to her 36-year-old substitute paraprofessional son on 55 days when he failed to sign in or show up. 

Officials also said that Delgado, who was in charge of handling subcontractor payments, also gave her son an additional 50 minutes on five occasions when he did sign in.

“Koukaras knowingly received these improper payments—totaling $8,479.78—for…

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