{"id":1322910,"date":"2024-05-16T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1322910"},"modified":"2024-05-19T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T12:11:03","slug":"former-school-district-business-manager-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-more-than-300k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1322910","title":{"rendered":"Former school employee pleads guilty to stealing more than $300K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/movie-money-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-530094\" \/>HENDERSON COUNTY\u00e2\u20ac\u201c A former business manager for an East Texas school district pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing funds from the school in federal court. According to our news partner KETK, 38-year-old Brandon Delane Looney pleaded guilty to theft from a program receiving federal funds while serving as Trinidad ISD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business manager. Prosecutors said that Looney embezzled more than $300,000 between 2017 and 2023 during his time at Trinidad ISD. Looney could face up to a decade in prison, a fine and mandatory restitution to Trinidad ISD for the funds he stole. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON COUNTY\u00e2\u20ac\u201c A former business manager for an East Texas school district pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing funds from the school in federal court. According to our news partner KETK, 38-year-old Brandon Delane Looney pleaded guilty to theft from a program receiving federal funds while serving as Trinidad ISD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business manager. Prosecutors said that Looney &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1322910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former school employee pleads guilty to stealing more than $300K<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1322920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/movie-money-150x150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Former school district business manager pleads guilty to stealing more than $300K","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:10:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/movie-money-150x150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Former school district business manager pleads guilty to stealing more than $300K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323324,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322910\/revisions\/1323324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1322920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}