By Robert Snell and Jennifer Chambers
Detroit — Federal corruption prosecutors (click here) Wednesday charged a former assistant superintendent of West Bloomfield schools with obstructing a grand jury investigation for allegedly lying to investigators and deleting emails.
The case against Deanna Barash, 46, is the latest case filed by public corruption prosecutors against a public school official since 14 school administrators and a contractor were convicted in a $2.7 million bribery and kickback scheme involving Detroit Public Schools several years ago.
A federal court filing provides minimal details of the corruption investigation but accuses the assistant superintendent of obstructing an unspecified investigation from May 2018 through Dec. 9, 2019.
The Detroit News learned the probe involves Barash's prior tenure at Northville Public Schools, where she worked as an assistant superintendent before being hired in West Bloomfield in 2017....
Corruption costs tax payers money, not only in prosecution when the governmetn officals are caught, but, in misdirected monies that belongs to taxpayers. The misdirected monies COST the people the real purpose of the money. They lose their achievements for the budgets they fund. Corruption must be stopped.
