Not coverage area and not exactly sports related but.......

[AggiesAreWe]

Thought this was interesting. Head basketball coach of Houston Washington is the ring leader.

 

PER THE HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE:

Five Charged in Million-Dollar Teacher-Certification Cheating Scandal

Investigators Suspect as Many as 400 Bogus Test Results

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced today that felony charges had been filed against five individuals believed to have organized and participated in an illegal cheating scheme that could have resulted in as many as 400 teachers receiving unearned certification statewide.

Mike Levine, a felony chief in the DA Office’s Public Corruption Division, estimated that the ring’s kingpin had grossed more than $1 million from the scheme.

Those charged are:

Vincent Grayson, 57, the head boys basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston ISD. Grayson is charged as the organizer of the cheating scheme.

Tywana Gilford Mason, 51, the former director/VA certifying official at the Houston Training and Education Center. Mason’s role as test proctor allowed her to keep the proxy scheme undetected.

Nicholas Newton, 35, an assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston ISD. Newton is alleged to have participated in the scheme as the proxy test-taker.

Darian Nikole Wilhite, 22, a proctor at TACTIX who is alleged to have taken bribes to allow Newton to act as a testing proxy.

LaShonda Roberts, 39, an assistant principal at Yates High School in Houston ISD. Roberts is charged with recruiting nearly 100 teachers to participate in the cheating scheme.

All five defendants are charged with two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity.

[rupert3]

OMG what will they figure out next to scam.

[mfd814]

Crazy.  I read this today 

[bullets13]

Jeez

[Kountzer]

I mentioned here before that I have talked to the BT Washington coach  before. He would visit the driver license office where I worked. When I told him I was from Silsbee he was exuberant in his praise for coach Sigler and the Silsbee basketball program. This started around 2017 or so when Silsbee was winning Bigly.

When I saw his name and picture all over the news I was as shocked as any one. He was and is a nice person, to me anyway. 

His coaching days are over. This will also have a negative effect on the Houston BT Washington basketball program.