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Stories like this pique my interest partly because I once was part of this community, and also because I wonder about the nature of the judgment handed down by the court.<\/p>\n

Here’s the summary: A Jefferson County, Texas, judge has ordered two former Beaumont Independent School District administrators to pay the district $4 million apiece in funds they admitted to embezzling.<\/p>\n

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Devin McCraney once served as\u00a0BISD’s chief financial officer and Sharrika Allison was the district’s comptroller. I don’t know either of them, as they came on board long after my wife and I left Beaumont in January 1995.<\/p>\n

District Judge Milton Shuffield ordered the two of them to pay $4 million each, plus another $93,000 in interest.<\/p>\n

Here’s what makes me scratch my head.<\/p>\n

I worked for nearly 37 years in daily journalism. I made a decent salary during a good bit of my working life. My combined salary over the course of\u00a0my entire career\u00a0never even came close to a fraction of the amount of money assessed by the judge in this embezzlement case.<\/p>\n

How does the judge expect these individuals to pay back the money?<\/p>\n

Did they pocket the money somewhere in a secret place? Will they be able to just hand it over once they uncover it?<\/p>\n

I guess I should note that both of them received prison sentences, which took them out of the work force for several years.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what these individuals earned while working for BISD, which has fallen on extremely hard times in recent years. The state education agency swooped in and took over day-to-day management of the district. Its former superintendent, Carroll Thomas, “retired” after helping steer the district into the tumult that resulted in the state takeover.<\/p>\n

Now a district judge has ordered\u00a0these two former administrators\u00a0to repay the district millions of dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m a layman watching this story from afar. How does that work?<\/p>\n

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