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White collar criminal, good liar, elementary school principal

The jury was also reprimanded for giggling every time

someone said "United States of America vs. Gooch."









By the way, I just found that information on the trial and subsequent conviction by doing a quick Google search. More on that in a moment...





As they discussed curriculums together, the pair began to fall in love. They soon became engaged and later were married. While in federal prison, Gooch was used as a "curriculum consultant" by Gail Worrell, a teacher at Lindenwood University (Gooch and Worrell met each other at an education conference during the mid 90's).As they discussed curriculums together, the pair began to fall in love. They soon became engaged and later were married.









"When I look into your eyes, all I see is

a more efficient way to assess our second quarter grades."









Once Gooch left jail, he applied for a job in Illinois School District U-46 as a principal (which unsurprisingly, Worrell had obtained a job in, as well). He listed "university consulting" on his resume, but failed to mention that it was done while serving a prison sentence. In fact, he claimed on his resume that he had never been convicted of a felony (which he totally had).





The school district claimed that it did not catch what I was able to find using "The Google Machine" for a couple of reasons:





1). The crime was committed in Milwaukee, so it did not show up in Illinois on a cursory back ground check









And what happens in Milwaukee, stays in Milwaukee.









2). The district claimed that a more thorough background check was too costly ; the one that they used was $7, while the one that would have found Mr. Gooch's past indiscretions would have cost $55. While I can understand this being far too costly for all of the district's employees, it probably was worth doing for the person in charge of a school....









Mr. Gooch and his awesome name resigned from District U-46 in December...and then he was hired as an elementary school principal in the Fairmont School District, who were also well aware ...or you could just Google his name like I did. All that cost me was missing a great touchdown during the game that is on the television right now.Mr. Gooch and his awesome name resigned from District U-46 in December...and then he was hired as an elementary school principal in the Fairmont School District, who were alsoof his criminal and deceitful past (scroll down in the link for highlighted/mind boggling text).





But hey, the guy just committed a white collar crime. He may have lied about his criminal history during a job interview, but at least it appears that he didn't actually harm the school or the kids. Unfortunately, our next example did.









3. Michael James Maples Convicted of attempted larceny, becomes a principal, succeeds at larceny.





Michael James Maples had a rough time during the late 80's and early 90's. He was convicted of multiple offenses during his time in the military which included attempted grand theft larceny, altering public records, and wearing unauthorized military badges and decorations.





Maples' defense of trying to make sure he had

the required "pieces of flair" was rejected









When someone is hired for a high paying job that requires large amounts of time to be spent around children, you would figure that a background check would be somewhat thorough. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Presented here are 4 examples of school administrators that were hired despite having some surprisingly checkered pasts. We'll start with most innocuous example and work our way up the ladder of insanity.During the 1990s, Calvin Gooch spent his work time at AT&T in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He spent is off hours masterminding an overtime kickback scheme.Gooch had his secretary alter time records for herself and 3 other employees to receive unworked overtime hours. A jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison.