U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain said in a statement: "Shulick promised to provide at-risk school students with counseling, security, and support services. He also promised to pay teachers a decent wage. He broke all of those promises and lined his pockets with funds that he had no business taking, all the while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars renovating his Gladwyne home and his vacation home in New Jersey. Shulick's actions were an appalling abuse of trust, which the sentence makes clear."