Gulenist Kemal Oksuz arrested in Armenia -whistle blower on Hizmet #Mueller #Flynn #DeepState

Kemal Oksuz has plead guilty to money laundering for the congressional trip he will be sentenced
on February 11, 2019

Kemal Oksuz in Killing Ed documentary- Directors selection Political influence - Bribes

REAL ESTATE AND WEALTH
ACCUMULATED BY MEMBERS OF THE GULEN MOVEMENT
STEALING FROM OUR EDUCATIONAL TAX MONEY VIA GRANTS, BONDS
AND LOANS.

https://www.emlaknews.com.tr/haberler/amerikadaki-fetosculerin-luks-inleri-309287/

The darkest organization in the history of the republic, FETO, has paid millions of dollars in fortune to build a new life in the US on the July 15th treacherous coup attempt. Himmet banknotes and billions of dollars of money from Bank Asya were not enough to hide their blood or hide their dirty faces.

Today , many of the key names of FETO , from Emre Uslu to Kemal Öksüz, Cemil Teber to Ahmet Sait Yayla, have been published on the internet from their addresses, relatives and bloody money in the USA. The tragicomic side of the matter is that this information has been made available for the purpose of innocent service under the authority and approval of the United States.

How Does?

There are two important internet sites that serve relatives and friends who want to relocate to places close to them in 50 separated countries with a population of 321 million. A few minutes after you give us your name and some information about your relatives you are looking for on sites where US federal, state, and government data are used, you get access to your records.

The address, telephone information, who lives at home, who lives in the vicinity, his relatives, his wife, friend, neighbors, tenant or house owner, how many properties, Even within the transparency policy of the virtual world, even the record of the person searched is intimidated: Caution! Are you pregnant with your relatives, yet do you want to be next to him? 'The bitter truth of the dreamland is ...

This time, the hidden worlds of the FETO's people are all in the nakedness. You ask why?

Like we said, the issue is entirely emotional, to strengthen the 'friendship, kinship' relationships among the states! Before we put a point on this topic, let us give you another piece of information: The person you are looking for on the sites ' Hello! There is also a button for your demeniz.

Come on, chatterbox ...

It is not wrong to say that they are living like kings if they are a cliché for the hill names of the treacherous army to the new world order built with the money of himmet which the FETÖ sent his believers' wedding rings, houses and cars.

The smallest house is over a thousand square meters. Most of them choose Virginia as their residence, but there are more than one property that appears to be registered on them. That Virginia is the center of his choice of base. 217 km from Virginia-Washington. The FETO staff also called relatives of relatives near their home or secret names.

An important detail in the meantime: There is no information on some senior names, especially Fethullah Gulen and Hakan Sukur , in the files using Federal data .

They live like you ever ... Who do you think these names hide?

Like the Gülen City residents in Virginia, the standard of living in Texas, New Jersey is high. Lobbying the days pass fetö'cü are filling their pockets with the game, the place from which they sit doodling on Turkey, seeking new victims will not leave empty himmet safe.

Without extending the promise further, we leave you with the American dream of the FETOs.

Cemil Teber

FETO's lobbying company Washington Strategy Group Inc. Cemil Teber, manager, has two houses in Virginia, Texas. The price of a 2,792 square meter home in Virginia's Fairfax district is $ 780,000. The house has four bedrooms with five bathrooms. Texas's other house in Houston looks on your partner. 200 thousand dollars house size 2 thousand 400 square meters. In this house there are three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

Faruk Taban

The key door to the US structuring of FETO Faruk Taban, President of the Turkish-American Alliance (TAA), has $ 550,000 worth of mansions in the Centerville area of ​​Virginia. The base has purchased 550 thousand dollars of property on 2 thousand 300 square meters. Garden luxury house has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. There is also a registered property on the base and a property in Washington.

Emre Uslu

According to the records, Emre Uslu, a PhD firsis, is having a day in Fairfax, Virginia. Looks like two residence addresses for Uslu. One of the addresses is a luxury apartment in the Arlington area. There is no information that Uslu bought a house or a tenant. The apartment's over $ 5,000 rent. The other address is in Washington, DC.

Ahmet Sait Yayla

Ahmet Sait Yayla, who was sought as a fugitive in the investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor for allegedly assassination of TSK personnel by TAF staff in the Cosmic Chamber investigation, bought 500 thousand dollars duplex house in Virginia's Fairfax city. Yayla, living in a 600 square meter villas with three relatives, has a farmhouse in Texas.

Hasan A. Yurtsever

Hasan Ali Yurtsever, who runs the chairman of the Rumi Forum in the organization of the FETO organization, has two houses in Fairfax, Virginia, one of which is a private duplex with a market value of approximately 650 thousand dollars and the other is an apartment house. Yurtsever, who appears to have lived with three of his family, also bought another house in Chicago, Illinois.

Recep Özkan

Recep Özkan, who was former president of the Turkish Cultural Center and spoke of his $ 1.5 million donation to Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, is making a percentage of Bank Asya victims with a $ 1.4 million house in New York's Brooklyn district.

Yüksel Alp Aslandyan

The President of Alliance for Shared Values, Yüksel Alp Aslandoğan, resides in a triple-family house in the Fort Lee district of New Jersey, worth about $ 540,000. Aslanoğan lives with a woman who is 10 years younger than himself. It appears that there is another house in Texas that is registered on it.

Burak Yeneroğlu

Burak Yeneroglu, owner of the Bayrock Stone company, has spent $ 400,000 in a triplex mansion in the Carlstadt district of New Jersey and spent the summers in the summer palace in Miami, paying $ 652,000 in donations to former US President Barack Obama.

Talha Saraç

Talha Saraç, the son of Jesus Saraç, president of Virginia International University in connection with the US-led PTO, is also enjoying a dreamy villa in Virginia Fairfax. Federal data declares that four female relatives live in the same street as Saraç. Saraç's house costs 650 thousand dollars.

THE RULE OF FETH

Cevdet Türkyolu

It is known that Cevdet Türkyolu, known as the nephew of FETET ringle Fetullah Gulen, has served at the top of the organization for many years, is a double house in Pennsylvania and Florida. The value of the houses is over a million dollars.

Turkey's property in the United States is not only a home, but also a large number of workplace tapes. In Florida's Winter Springs region, the ocean-side furnishings are a complete palace.

Knowing the most intimate secrets of Gulen, the Turkish currency, nicknamed "Long Cevdet", came into being with the news of being beaten by Gülen.

Sezai Sablak

Seiren Sablak, Vice President of the Golden Generation Center for Worship and Recreation, where Gulen has lived since 1999, is over $ 400,000 worth of five-room, five-bathroom houses in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The details of the house where Sablak lived with two female relatives are hidden. In the meantime, Sablak is named as Cesai and Steve.

Hakan Sukur

Before going to the US from Turkey Yavuz Sultan Selim caftan allegedly tried to steal Hakan Sukur has revealed the details of the life of luxury in San Francisco last week. The US government is hiding information about himself and his wife, Mrs.

FETO sanctioned a café-restaurant named ' Tuts Bakery-Cafe ' near University Avenue, the busiest street of Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley . There are many famous names in the luxurious area where Şükür'ün's café is located, and there are important centers such as Apple Store and Stanford University.

Şükür'ün residence with his family still cost the house, according to the real estate valuation sites in the region over $ 3 million. Property rented in September 2015. The monthly rent for the house is 6,850 dollars. Thank goodness, luxury cars are known for their passion. The villas are equipped with the latest model Lexus and Mercedes Jeep and Volkswagen passenger car in the garage.

Spotlight Murat Guzel, the TASC / MUSAID ties and his leadership at DNC CLINTON FOUNDATION FBI Questioning

This blog has mentioned Gulenist Murat Guzel, he is one of the main conduits for bribing US Politicians via his high post at the DNC (Democratic National Committee) and his infiltration of Turkish American groups like TASC and MUSAID.  

FBI questions pro AKP figure

Shortly afterwards Congressman Cartwright presented his famous

Congressional Honor for Imam Muhammed Fethullah Gulen 

https://www.congress.gov/crec/2014/11/19/CREC-2014-11-19-pt1-PgE1633-5.pdf

Murat lives just a few miles away from the Gulen compound and is a frequent visitor to the
 Golden Generation Worship and Retreat - 30 acre estate of the Gulen Movement 

Guzel works very hard infiltrating and networking all angles for the Gulen Movement from bribes to politicians (he was one of the main money sources for Congressman Cartwright to present a Congressional honor for Gulen) he has also spread himself between TASC and MUSAID.  Not only wedging himself as a conduit but a sort of spy reporting back and forth between Erdogan's Camp, Gulen's Camp, TASC and MUSAID.  Basically Guzel is a rat that crosses the rat line to benefit Gulen and whatever else suits him.  The FBI has questioned him and has an investigation on him, he is very likely giving them information as well 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/07/exclusive-dnc-official-shared-political-intel-with-turkish-government-officials-paid-for-pro-turkey-op-ed

A Turkish-American businessman who is head of the Democratic National Committee’s Heritage Council claimed to have paid a former GOP congressman to write a pro-Turkey op-ed last year and also provided secret updates on his own political activities to members of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s inner circle, newly released emails reveal.

The businessman, Murat Guzel, was also interviewed by the FBI earlier this year along with several Turkish nationals linked to its government, other emails indicate.

The bombshell revelations come from the hacked email account of Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s energy minister and Erdogan’s son-in-law. The emails, which number more than 57,000, were originally released by a hacker collective called RedHack, but they received little attention in the American press until they were published on Monday by WikiLeaks.

The documents, almost all of which are in Turkish, shed light into many secret activities between Erdogan’s government and U.S.-based operatives working to further Turkey’s agenda.

Guzel, who owns Nimeks, an organic juice company based in Pennsylvania, has perhaps the biggest political footprint of any of the operatives identified in the emails.

He has contributed and other top nearly $300,000 to committees that supported Hillary Clinton for president, and his Facebook page is replete with photos he has taken with the former secretary of state Democrats.

He’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars more to various Democratic politicians, and has visited the White House on several occasions. One of Guzel’s Facebook photographs shows him sitting in on a meeting with President Obama. See photo above

Crossing over to speak with WARMONGER Lindsay Graham of South Carolina

Murat Guzel is confused who he is working for? Erdogan? Gulen?
TASC? MUSAID? or perhaps just infiltrating them all for the FBI who has
Murat Guzel under investigation

And writing under his title as chairman of the DNC’s heritage council and as an officer with the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Council, Guzel endorsed Clinton in an op-ed published in The Hill on Nov. 2.   But in addition to his steadfast support for Democrats and his official positions with the DNC, the emails hacked from Albayrak’s account suggest that Guzel, who is a naturalized American citizen, also appears to have strong allegiances to his native land and to Erdogan. Murat playing both sides is going to get burned, he is a die hard Gulenist but what deal did he cut with the FBI 

“To stand by Erdogan and do whatever we can against evil powers is not just an act of kindness but rather an Islamic obligation upon all of us,” he wrote to Albayrak in an Oct. 19, 2014 email which was translated for The Daily Caller by a Turkish citizen.

Erdogan, who is an Islamist, has come under increasing pressure from human rights groups because of his crackdown on the Turkish press and dissenters. RedHack released the Albayrak emails after Erdogan’s government refused to release a group of activists from prison.

Guzel, who is a director at MÜSİAD-USA, a Muslim business association that represents Turkish companies, is seen in the emails reporting his activities to Albayrak as well as to Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkey’s president, and Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan’s press secretary.

Some of the emails show that Guzel asked the Turkish officials for help in coordinating his political activities in the U.S. In turn, he was directed to coordinate with other U.S.-based operatives to push Turkey’s political issues.

Murat Guzel's shameless involvement with TASC and MUSAID where he was caught on surveillance camera continually making his way toward anyone of importance to get his photo taken.  Most noteable was President Erdogan's daughter- now some memorable moments from TASC and MUSAID 

In one Oct. 20, 2015 email, Guzel told Kalin about an op-ed he helped place in The Washington Times written by former Indiana Rep. Dan Burton.

In the piece, entitled “Why Turkey Matters,” Burton, who retired from Congress in 2013, praised Turkey as the U.S.’s “biggest friend and ally” in the Middle East.  

Congressman Dan Burton is the person invited by us to AKP Delegation Meetings in Turkey and you can find his article about Turkey below. He had worked over 30 years at the state department as a congressman and we were able to get an article from a very important person and we didn’t spent that much money for it. I have worked alot to make this happen but your help and the time that we spend together help him to make the main points of the article. without your and yasin hoca’s help and warm welcome this article had been not written. Congressman and I appreciate it to both of you.

Kalin thanked Guzel for placing the article.

“Yes it was a good work. Thanks. We need to increase this type of writing. We publish this in Turkish,” he responded.

Guzel also told Albayrak and Bilal Erdogan about a meeting he had in Nov. 2014 with Pennsylvania Rep. Matt Cartwright.

Cartwright had recently praised Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric from Turkey who lives in exile in the Pocono mountains and is Erdogan’s top enemy. Erdogan has for several years accused Gulen and his millions of followers of attempting to undermine the Turkish government. The rivalry reached a peak in July after Erdogan accused Gulen of masterminding a coup.

In his email, Guzel informed Albayrak and the younger Erdogan that he told Cartwright that the Democrat had been the recipient of illegal campaign contributions made by foreigners who support Gulen.

Every Group has a rat and in the Gulen Movement that rat is MURAT GUZEL who is he really working for?  Enjoy random tweets from Murat the Rat 

More links of interest about Murat Guzel 

Devestated by Clintons Defeat Gulenists take anti-Trump stance

TASC message from Co Chairman

TASC was formed as a District of Columbia nonprofit organization in March 2016, and represents Turkish American organizations and mosques across the nation. The TASC Board of Directors includes 15 Turkish American leaders. TASC’s Executive Committee includes two Co-Chairpersons, Secretary General Derya Taskin, Treasurer Murat Guzel, Director of Public Relations Mustafa Tuncer, Director of Fund Raising Oya Bain, and Director of Community Relations Dr. Halil Mutlu.

TASC is entirely funded by you, the Turkish American! Through the personal donations of TASC’s members, Directors, and the business community, TASC raised more $180,000 by the Fourth of July, and expects to raise another $150,000 by Christmas!  We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts.

DNC Official shared intelligence with Turkish Government

US Muslim- TASC support Turkish Democracy now

Murat Guzel official website - TASC asks for justice for coup white house rally

Murat Guzel -Can Smart Juice be another Chobani?

Gulen Congressional Donors

Murat Guzel has served as a board member of the Gulenist organization ATCOM which is headed by Ihsan Isik, a founding board member of the now-embattled Truebright Science Academy, a Gulen charter school in Philadelphia that is facing closure.  Guzel is mentioned in a Lehigh Valley Live news piece of July 28, 2012 on the Lehigh Dialogue Center.  He is listed as President of Nimeks, Incorporated, a Pennsylvania corporation (link) which has Abdulkadir (a.k.a. Kadir) Veziroglu as Treasurer.  Veziroglu was on the Founding Coalition of the Allentown Engineering Academy, a proposed Gulen charter school in Allentown, Pennsylvania that was rejected and failed to win an appeal to the Charter Appeal Board of the state of Pennsylvania.  Veziroglu's name also appears on the domain registration of nimeks.com, the website of Nimeks, Inc.  The one other corporate officer for Nimeks, Inc. currently listed on the Pennsylvania Department of State website is Erol Cebeci, who quite possibly may be the Erol Aslan Cebeci of the SETA think tank and ATCOM.  SETA, which has branches in Turkey and Washington DC, was said in a 2010 Congressional Research Report by Carol Migdalovitz to be tied to the Gulen Movement.  (More recent webpages (e.g. link) emerging out of the website of SETA's Turkish branch suggest that it has taken Erdogan's side in the Gulen-Erdogan split, but this does not erase SETA's past Gulenist ties.)  The campaignmoney.com website shows Murat Guzel as having made a total of $57,300 in political donations in the 2014 election cycle.  Guzel was a delegate at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.  It is unknown whether the above-mentioned Murat Guzel has a relation to a Murat Guzel who was a board member of the Wellspring Cultural and Education Foundation, a Gulenist organization in Connecticut.  

Pacifica Institute Gulen West Coast Lobbying and Idaho Politicians- Gulen Link to Chobani Yogurt & Turkish owner

Over the course of 2011, 13 Idaho legislators toured Turkey.

The lawmakers had to pay their own way halfway across the globe, but once they got to Turkey, their hotels, meals and travels were bankrolled by the Pacifica Institute, a group of Turkish-Americans. The group said its mission was “to develop social capital — the creation and extension of positive connections within and between disparate social networks.”

During the trip, the lawmakers toured Turkish schools and universities. Senate President Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, said the tour provided lawmakers a chance to meet with political, education and business leaders.

Why are those trips of interest, five years after the fact? The Pacifica Institute is aligned with Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen. And Gulen figures prominently in the fallout from Friday’s failed military coup in Turkey — although Gulen’s role in the coup is open to debate. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Gulen with orchestrating the attempted coup. Gulen has denied any involvement, and has accused Erdogan of staging the coup, NBC News reported Monday.

Also of note, in any discussion of Gulen and K-12 policy, is his role in the charter schools movement. As the Washington Post reported Saturday, Gulen has ties to 160 charter schools across the nation — which would constitute one of the nation’s largest charter school networks.

I wrote about the legislators’ trips to Turkey at the time, in my former life as an Idaho Statesman editorial writer and columnist. I hadn’t given those columns much thought until the weekend, when a fellow reporter reminded me of the Idaho-Gulen connection.

So, which legislators took the Pacifica Institute up on its invite?

The list includes five current legislators, in addition to Hill: outgoing Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Nampa, now a candidate for state Supreme Court; Sen. Lee Heider, R-Twin Falls; Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum; Rep. John Rusche, D-Lewiston; and outgoing Rep. Donna Pence, D-Gooding.

The list also includes seven former lawmakers: Sens. John McGee, R-Caldwell, Joe Stegner, R-Lewiston; John Tippetts, R-Montpelier, Diane Bilyeu, D-Pocatello; and Edgar Malepeai, D-Pocatello; and Reps. Janice McGeachin, R-Idaho Falls; and Dennis Lake, R-Blackfoot.

NEW UPDATE 9/13/2018 on connection to Idaho and the Chobani yogurt plant- Owner Hamid Ulukaya 

Hamdi Ulukaya is a member of the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrials (TUSKON), an organization of 40,000 employers (which also includes Godiva Chocolate) with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. So in addition to his dairy product activities, he is deeply committed to civilizational jihad, a “pre-violent” form of jihad, through the Gulen Movement, a transnational religious and social effort led by the somewhat reclusive Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher, Fethullah Gulen, who currently resides in Pennsylvania.

Gulen has been depicted as a Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr., but he runs a $25 billion international network and was furtively responsible for changing Turkey from a secular to a strongly Islamized state, now governed by Erdogan. Along with the AKP party that turned Turkey away from the West toward Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, Gulen’s sect portrays itself as a supporter of tolerance and education, 

More here https://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/63565/The-Chobani-Gulen-Connection

Chobani Plant in Twin Falls, Idaho where refugees resettle to work

 for Gulenist Hamid Ulukaya 

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/more-evidence-that-big-business-is-a-driver-of-refugee-resettlement-in-america/

Where is Ozkur / Oskur Yildez on the Gulen hierarchy on the west coast?

very high up - he has even taught at Sonoran Science Academy in Arizona and did special 

Turkish cultural classes for Magnolia Science Academy at the Pacifica Institute/Magnolia Headquarters they once shared.  Today Magnolia Headquarters shares an office with CCSA-California Charter School Association 250 E. First St., Los Angeles, CA.  

Gulen California Operation- Hierarchy organizational chart from Gulen Cemaat

Caprice Young Superintendent Tool of Gulen Magnolia Science Academy tells a big lie

Caprice Young publicly denies the obvious-even-to-the-Turkish-government link between her charter chain and the Gulen Movement. Her assertion about human rights would raise the eyebrows of thousands of people jailed in Turkey during the former collaboration between the Gulenists and the equally authoritarian President Erdogan. My question is this: why is a secretive sect leader with grand political ambitions being funded in the US via the charter school sector?

Incidentally, one of the Magnolia board members just dropped $100k on Correct The Record, a Hillary super-pac. The Gulenists glommed onto the Clintons a long time ago and it's been nothing but love and money ever since; they undoubtedly view Hillary Clinton as central to their worldwide advancement.

Here's the receipt.

More updates from Tim Furman Click Here

Remzi Oten

More Virigina legislators pull back support from proposed Gulen Charter School

Although the proposed Gulen operated charter school for Loudoun County has been denied.  Senator Black should be praised for being one of the few members of American politics to stand up and say "no more"  The Gulen Movement is wedged in very deeply with member of state, federal legislature as well as on local levels.  As well as local members of higher academia the Gulen Movement has nicely donated money to American universities and to political campaigns.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/08/va-legislator-withdraws-support-from-controversial-loudoun-charter-school-proposal/

A Virginia state senator has withdrawn support  from a proposed charter school — which would be the first in Loudoun and possibly in Northern Virginia if allowed to open — because of public “misgivings” and other concerns.

Junior Sen. Richard H. Black D-Loudoun (R) is introduced on the Senate floor on January 11, 2012. (Tracy A. Woodward/The Washington Post)

The application to open the Loudoun Math & IT Academy has sparked controversy in the Northern Virginia county. A three-member select committee of the Loudoun School Board voted recently against recommending that the full panel approve the school because of questions involving curriculum and other operational issues. In hearings, the applicants were unable to answer basic questions about curriculum, student transportation and other subjects to the satisfaction of the members. The full board will vote in late February on the application. The legislature does not have a role in the process.
An undated letter from state Sen. Richard H. Black (R-Leesburg), posted on the school system’s Web site, says he is withdrawing support for the proposed charter for another reason. It says in part:
…Unfortunately, I was not fully apprised of certain misgivings expressed by the public regarding this proposal.

 Questions have been raised about whether other charter schools associated with this particular network have experienced high rates of failure and poor financial management.

Since $8 million will be diverted from the Loudoun County Public School System for the proposed school, I am reluctant to endorse a proposal submitted from a group whose management does not enjoy a solid level of public trust and confidence…

The “particular network” to which he is referring is a group of charter schools around the country that have been opened by supporters of of a reclusive Turkish Islamic preacher named Fethullah Gulen, who lives in seclusion in Pennsylvania. There are believed to be about 135 charter schools in this network, and a number of them have come under investigation from state and federal officials for various issues, including connections to the Gulen Movement. 

Gulen himself won a green card in 2008 to emigrate to the United States after the Department of Homeland Security initially denied his request for a special visa. A 2007 lawsuit  he filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia said  that he was “head of the Gulen Movement,” and an important educational figure who had “overseen” the creation of a network of schools in the United States as well as in other countries,  the Philadelphia Inquirer reported in this story.

The Turkish men who are applying to open the academy have said they are not connected to Gulen though critics say there are connections between them and other Gulen-connected schools. I recently asked Sinan Yildirim, listed as one of the members of the proposed school’s initial governing board, whether he and his fellow applicants are connected to the preacher as critics have said and he answered: “We said no. They said yes. If they claim something they have to prove. And they can’t prove it.”

Some of the applicants run the Chesapeake Science Point Public Charter School in Anne Arundel County, which has had academic success but has clashed repeatedly with Anne Arundel education officials. The school is suing the district, alleging that it has been underfunded. The school won a three-year extension on its contract last summer even though Superintendent Kevin Maxwell cited enormous problems. In a June post I noted:

Maxwell wants the school, among other things, to hire qualified and fully certified teachers, allow parents to elect the board of directors “to reflect the community it serves,” use appropriate procurement and bidding processes for outside contracts, use the same data system that other public schools in the country use, follow board policy for the hiring of foreign nationals, and agree not to allow any of its contractors or subcontractors to “knowingly employ” anybody who has been investigated for criminal activity.

A member of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Geary M. Higgins (R-Catoctin), recently sent a letter to Superintendent Edgar Hatrick III and the Loudoun School Board withdrawing his earlier support for the academy.

State legislators and county supervisors are not officially involved in the application process, but it is interesting that both Higgins and Black are charter school supporters who initially supported the proposed academy.

 Higgins’ letter said in part:

I fully support the concept of charter schools. I also believe that enhanced STEM opportunities for Loudoun students could be of great benefit to the community. However, controversy has arisen around this application such that a closer evaluation is warranted.

Concerns about accounting practices, provision of special education students, hiring practices, and lack of accountability have all been brought to my attention. As a result of the worries raised to me by numerous citizens, I made direct inquiries to Anne Arundel County Public Schools — home to Chesapeake Science Point, which served as the model for LMITA — to check on those concerns. Unfortunately, some of these claims do not appear to be unfounded.

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