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THEY ALL GET CAUGHT...EVENTUALLY!
DETROIT (AP) — A contractor accused of paying kickbacks to get business from Detroit schools pleaded guilty Wednesday and said 12 principals and an administrator charged in the scheme conspired with...
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MR. INGERSOLL'S YARD SALE: An $8,577 Couch, A Stationary 1985 Mercedes-Benz,...
Just when you thought you'd heard it all, Miss Fortune has another shocker! (Any day I can publish a mugshot is a good day!)An estate sale held inside and outside the Perry House, 2230 Center Avenue in...
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COMING TOMORROW: Brian Ackerman's 15-Year Criminal History; From Michigan To...
Gaylord resident Brian Ackerman, the manager of Steven Ingersoll's May 13-14 Perry House estate sale, is facing a July 27 criminal trial in Otsego County. Charged last May with two counts of third...
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CREEPSHOW RETURNS ON D-DAY: Steven Ingersoll, Roy C. Bradley, Sr. Federal Tax...
The sentencing hearing for Steven Ingersoll, convicted on March 10, 2015 of three counts of fraud and tax evasion, resumes on June 6, 2016 at 8:30am.Ingersoll and co-defendant/toady/chore-whore Roy C....
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CHARMLESS OFFENSIVE: Grand Traverse Academy Spinmeisters & A Self-Serving Story
During an interview this morning with Ron Jolly on WTCM NewsTalk 580, Grand Traverse Academy Superintendent Susan Dameron and board member Lea Piche may have deliberately mislead Jolly's audience...
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“TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE” Feckless MDE Pussyfoots, Grants Absolution (And...
The Michigan Department of Education officially blessed the Bay City Academy's deficit elimination plan in a May 17 letter (shown below). According to the Bay City Academy's 2014/2015 financial report,...
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TRIAL OF CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDER COSTS TAXPAYERS A BUNDLE: Board President...
BOARD PRESIDENT BRAD HABERMEHL TESTIFIES FOR DEFENSE DAYS BEFORE HE'S SLAPPED WITH SIX-FIGURE DEFAULT JUDGMENT! Grand Traverse Academy Board picks up tab for legal fees to represent Habermehl; spends...
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ADJUSTING THE FONT SIZE ON QUICKBOOKS REPORTS: Turns Out Grand Traverse...
During her January 7, 2016 Ingersoll sentencing hearing testimony, former Grand Traverse Academy superintendent (and longtime Smart Schools, Inc./GTAS, LLC apparatchik) Kaye Mentley made light of the...
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WIPING AWAY DEBT: The Real Bankruptcies Of The Grand Traverse Academy Board.
Could the significant money troubles of current and former board members have influenced the financial mess at the Grand Traverse Academy?Miss Fortune investigates; coming soon!
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OVERLAP! GRETCHEN INGERSOLL MANAGED FINANCES AT BAY CITY ACADEMY..WHILE SHE...
While the Bay City Academy was seeking $700,000 to refinance a Michigan State Aid Anticipation Note in February 2015, the process was being managed by Gretchen Ingersoll.The daughter-in-law of Steven...
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SMALL-TOWN SMILES...AND EGOTISTICAL DOUCHEBAGS: Coming July 5th!
Sadly, some parents do not care whether fraud and abuse is going on at charter schools as long as their own children get what could be likened to a private school education paid for out of public...
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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PERCENTAGES: Mark Noss Paid Steven Ingersoll,...
The news, broken exclusively on this blog, that Mark Noss had been making monthly payments to Steven Ingersoll and Ingersoll-controlled entities between April 2014-March 2016 eventually made it to...
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INTERVIEW WITH A (FINANCIAL) VAMPIRE: Mark Noss Preps For Possible Ingersoll...
Miss Fortune looks back on the public misstatements of Mark Noss, his sworn affidavits, and his likely testimony during Steven Ingersoll's sentencing hearing.With the hearing resuming on July 11, what...
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SHLAIMOUN, PARTY OF TWO! Battle Creek's "Crooked Chiropractor" Robert...
PART TWO: Read the first installment at this link.Robert Buckhannon, known to longtime readers of this blog as the "crooked chiropractor", has been really, really busy since his arrest by the feds on...
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HAS ROBERT BUCKHANNON'S "EMPLOYER" CLINICAL TESTING CORP BEEN REPLACED BY...
Robert Buckhannon's position as Executive Vice President of New Business Development for Nevada-based Clinical Testing Corp LLC gave him the freedom to "travel to manage" the company's education and...
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UNDER SEAL: U. S. Government Files Petition To Order Tax Documents,...
BREAKING NEWS! According to a petition filed this afternoon in the Steven Ingersoll case, the government requested an order from U. S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington authorizing federal prosecutors...
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REIGN OF ERROR CONTINUES: “The Fungibility Of Money Within SSM”
Full Spectrum Management LLC 2014 Net Income: $396,441.11Although he claimed (presumably with a straight face) during the December 17, 2015 Grand Traverse Academy board meeting that he "has no business...
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BORN ON THE 5th OF JULY: Traverse City Attorney Jan Geht Launches TCAPS Board...
“Running for the TCAPS Board of Education is my way of continuing to serve our community by drawing on my extensive experience as a problem solver. I bring two decades of success as an accountant and...
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INGERSOLL CASE BACKGROUNDER: For Those Who Are Just Joining This Party!
At the start of each fiscal year, beginning July1, 2007 and continuing for six years until 2013, Grand Traverse Academy (GTA) manager Steven Ingersoll advanced his entire annual Smart Schools...
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UN-BALANCED SHEETS: Bending The Rules & Coming Up To Speed
“The transactions coded with a “B” are payments made by FSM to SSM for the services performed by SSB’s accountant, the Defendant’s daughter-in-law Gretchen Ingersoll, for a total of $61,309.” Defense...
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