Dive Brief:
- A month-long investigation into the re-election campaign of former Indiana schools Superintendent Tony Bennett has resulted in a call for his prosecution.
- The investigation, conducted by the Indiana inspector general's office, highlighted that Bennett or his employees violated federal wire fraud law over 100 times.
- The 95-page paper by the inspector general's office runs in opposition to an 8-page formal report that was released in July and said that Bennett's office was at fault for only minimal violations.
Dive Insight:
This is not the first time Bennett has been at the center of controversy. After losing the Indiana re-election campaign, he was chosen as Florida's Education Commissioner. That job, however, did not last long. In August 2013, Bennett resigned from the position. The announcement came less than a week after the Associated Press reported that he allegedly modified Indiana's school grading system to give one of his donor's charter schools an "A" instead of the "C" it originally received.
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