Disgraced charter school exec pleads guilty to criminal money laundering, resigns from LA school board
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3VE47)
Ref Rodriguez ran a big-money campaign to be the first representative of a charter school to be elected to LA's public school board; the money came from the deep-pocketed investors in charter schools, and was criminally laundered with Rodriguez's help and led to him being made president of LA's board of ed. (more")