DONKEY: 2 School Staffers Caught Stealing Nearly $300K From School Funds For Personal Gain

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Give the donkey. Donkey today, for Thursday, November 5th, goes to two former employees of the International School of Monterey in Seaside, California, okay. Terry Bumper and Rosa Segura are the names. They are accused of stealing nearly $300,000 from a publicly funded school, okay. What kind of people look at resources intended for people who have less than them and decide that they deserve those resources more, okay. And do you know how they got exposed? They got exposed because they ordered something that people say we never have, and that's breakfast. Yes, a Costco order, okay. A Costco breakfast order is what blew up the whole operation because some people just do too much, okay. Apparently, Terry Bumper, the school's food services director, placed the order for damn near $59,000 in eggs, bacon, and potatoes, okay. Somebody looked at that bill and said, nope, this doesn't even sound right unless we are feeding the entire state of California. Okay, that suspicious order led to an investigation, and police say Terry had allegedly been using school money to buy food for his private catering business, Flavor To You, okay. Flavor To You was the name of his catering business. Apparently, the flavor was coming to you, but the bill was going to the school, okay. Authorities say Terry allegedly took nearly 59 grand and was even renting out the school's kitchen and pocketing the money, okay. Look, we live in an era where everyone has to have a side hustle, but this isn't a side hustle, this is stealing, okay. Doesn't matter that your stealing has a business plan, it's still stealing, okay. But while investigators were looking into Terry, the school reported another suspected embezzlement involving his chief financial officer, Rosa Segura. And Rosa allegedly decided to go bigger than Terry because she took more than $238,000, okay. But she was just living life, all right. She ain't even had no business, okay. Police say she used the school money to rent luxury hotels and go to restaurants and get massages. She was at Pilates classes. She was, you know, shopping and even using money to charge her Tesla.

She got the school district paying the electric bill for her wheels. Now investigators say there's no evidence these two were working together, but it's hard for me to believe that two people were allegedly stealing from the same school at the same time and neither knew what the other was doing, okay. Just because two people act like they don't know what's going on, doesn't mean it's not going on, okay. Now for the record, these are allegations, okay. Terry is pleaded not guilty and everybody deserves due process. But let's talk about why these folks might go to hell if they don't repent, okay. That money was supposed to be used for children, kids, okay. Not somebody's catering company, not somebody's massages and it reminds me of something we don't discuss enough, but I want to say this. Some people don't just exploit the system, they exploit the very people the system was created to protect, okay. There's a different section in hell for those type of individuals, okay. There are children in this country who depend on school meals because their families are struggling, parents work in two and three jobs just to keep food on the table, teachers spending their own money on classroom supplies, and you allegedly got grown adults treating school funds like their personal checking accounts? No, that's not how that's supposed to work, man. This is bigger than a school in California. We see this kind of behavior with charities and nonprofits, churches, and organizations that receive money that help struggling communities. Let's never forget the Mississippi welfare fraud case that Brett Favre's linked to. That scandal involved the diversion of over 90 million dollars meant for low-income families in Mississippi between 2016 and 2020 People get put in positions of trust, they're given access to resources, intended to help people who need assistance, and instead of serving those people, they start serving themselves. There's a difference between making a living serving people and making a living off the suffering of people. And some folks have gotten very comfortable doing the latter. They'll tell you they're passionate about helping the community, but the only person whose circumstances seem to be improving is them. Meanwhile, the people that are supposed to be helping are still struggling. And the worst part is that the people being exploited usually have the least power to do anything about it. Like a child can't audit the school's finances, a struggling parent doesn't know what's happening behind the scenes with the budget. They're trusting the adults in charge to do the right thing. And I have another question. How the hell did nearly 300 grand in suspected theft happen at one school before somebody notices? What kind of budget y'all got? Y'all must be balling to not notice 300 grand missing. Because if a suspicious order of bacon, eggs and potatoes is what finally gets people checking the books, then somebody needs to explain what the hell was happening with financial oversight.