By Nick Gale, WLS News
(CHICAGO) Chicago Public Schools is suing former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett, seeking $65 million in damages and losses related to a contract scam.
CPS filed the lawsuit against Byrd-Bennett, and the heads of SUPES Acadamey. The 10-count complaint includes allegations of civil conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Byrd-Bennett resigned from CPS in June amid a federal investigation into a $20 million no-bid contract given to SUPES Academy where Byrd-Bennett once worked.
She pleaded guilty to one of the 20 fraud counts in October.
CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said in a statement that “Byrd-Bennett and her co-conspirators knew the district’s dire straits and still concocted this scheme to divert needed resources away from classrooms and line their own pockets.”
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