Hershey! thank you so much for an incredible night. 13 years later, i made it back. what a week it’s been playing two stadium shows with @ThomasRhett , such a special thing.
it’s time to rest before rehearsals for the big one….dinner party live on tour . if you don’t have a ticket , you have to go get one. I promise you it’s going to be amazing
Ex-LA schools boss Alberto Carvalho failed to report $107,000 side hustle "coaching" another superintendent — as FBI probe continues | Ben Chapman, New York Post
Former Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho — who last month resigned after dramatic FBI raids of his home and offices — failed to report at least $107,000 he was paid in a lucrative side hustle, according to a shocking new report.
The embattled ex- leader of the nation’s second-largest district, who was drawing a salary in LA of $440,000, finally gave up his day job almost four months after he’d been placed on paid leave by the LAUSD Board of Education in a unanimous vote.
The disgraced educator resigned on June 21 — only after the LAUSD board threatened to dismiss him “for cause,” because he failed to report travel and baseball tickets given to him by a tech vendor, according to a confidential letter uncovered by the Los Angeles Times.
“It has been a great honor to serve you,” Carvalho wrote in his resignation letter, which did not explicitly mention the FBI raids. “Placing students first has always guided my work.”
Now, new allegations charge Carvalho with violating laws that may have required the leader of the $20.6 billion school district to disclose extra income.
The veteran schools boss, who previously led Miami’s public schools and was once named Superintendent of the Year, failed to report at least at least $107,000 he was paid for coaching the superintendent of Denver Public Schools, The Denver Post reports.
Carvalho drew the hefty sum beginning in mid-2022, for “executive coaching” services he provided to DPS superintendent Alex Marrero, first at a rate of $2,000 a month, then, starting the following year, at $3,000 a month.
In all, Carvalho charged the DPS at least $107,000 in invoices he submitted between November 2022 and January of this year, a period when Carvalho was also supposed to be leading LAUSD, according to contracts obtained by the news outlet.
Marrero “ended his formal coaching relationship” with Carvalho in February, DPS spokesman Bill Good told The Denver Post, after LAUSD put Carvalho on leave following the stunning FBI raids on his Palos Verdes home and district office.
Federal officials have been tight-lipped about the possible criminal charges the former superintendent may be facing but a source who’s familiar with the investigation told the Post that federal investigators are still conducting their probe.
Federal charges may be brought over nondisclosure of financial payments made to public officials such as Carvalho and they are most often overlap with other charges such as fraud, tax evasion or making false statements.
Federal agents in February executed search warrants at Carvalho’s San Pedro residence, LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles and a the Miami home of Debra Kerr, a former consultant with the tech firm AllHere who is tied to the investigation.
AllHere’s payment for a 2023 trip to the White House taken by Carvalho was flagged as an undisclosed financial benefit received by the former superintendent in the Board’s letter warning him of his potential termination for just cause, according to The Times.
The artificial intelligence company developed a chatbot for the district that flatlined just weeks after its release.
The company’s young founder, Joanna Smith-Griffin, was charged with fraud in 2024, just months after she joined Carvalho for a series of public events to kick off her company’s $6 million AI chatbot deal with the district.
The LAUSD board on June 24 replaced Carvalho with the new superintendent Andres Chait, a longtime Los Angeles educator who served as the district’s provisional leader after Carvalho was placed on leave.
Through his attorneys, Carvalho has denied any wrongdoing. He was spotted in May on an incognito shopping trip at his local Vons supermarket with his wife, Maria.
Carvalho last week placed his Palos Verdes home up for sale, asking $1,899,000 for the 2,000-square-foot house that commands sweeping backyard views of the Pacific Ocean.
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I am pleased to share the news that Sony Pictures will be reopening and restoring the historic Cinerama Dome. I was briefed by them on their reopening plans and can’t reveal any details, but I was invited to join the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation so I look forward to working with them to ensure that the restoration honors and preserves the Dome and keeps it exactly as it was in 1963. The Sony people have been extremely generous with me and kind. Getting it to reopen has been a six year odyssey for me. I’ve made many new friends along the way and I am grateful for many people supporting me. I started the petition to save the Cinerama Dome within minutes of finding out it was shutting down and it received over 30 thousand signatures. I was able to reveal the 2023 reopening plans and then break the sad news about it being officially cancelled. Many people told me to give up. Industry figures that I deeply admire told me it would be impossible to convince the family ownership to reoepen it or have it leased to another exhibitor considering their other abandoned cinemas and lack of communication to me. I was called delusional. People made fun of me. Instead, I held protests, spoke with city leaders, provided updates from public records, updated the media, continuously pressed the owners. I had conversations with filmmakers ranging from Wes Anderson to Quentin Tarantino about it. A few months ago I projected the images of the owners faces onto the Dome asking them to reopen and they called the police on me. That was actually a miracle in disguise. I received attention from all around the world and the Cinerama Dome became a topic of conversation again. The general public wasn’t aware that the Dome was abandoned & neglected for 6 years. At the time I had thought nobody would care and it was widely accepted the Dome would be another demolition by neglect. That night was the first form of communication I’ve had with the owners in six years. A few weeks later their property representative responded to a comment about my incident saying “Ownership has taken notice to extreme public interest in reopening” and then I gave ownership a deadline of August 20th to reopen or pick a new operator or massive protests will resume at their HQ. Just a few months later I’m contacted by Sony about the reopening. Now I have Save Your Cinema with over 20K followers on social media and millions of views each day. With the help of my followers we have saved multiple cinemas and are actively working on more reopening soon TBA! I am so grateful for everyone supporting me. Here are just some of the people I’d like to thank! Sean Baker, Edgar Wright, Alma Har'el, Joshua Safran, Alison Martino, Gary Baum, Mark Olsen, Jazz Tangcay, Pat Saperstein, Tait Forman, Christopher Forman , vanfathernighy and every single follower and person who signed my petition and liked my posts. We all made this happen TOGETHER as a community effort. Thank you to EVERYONE! The BEST movie theater on Earth will be reopening 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Strolling through the boundless sea of flowers makes time feel as if it has slowed down. The silent blossoms, mild sunlight, and light breeze foster a peaceful and relaxing ambiance, soothing all the hustle and exhaustion of daily life.📅Fully charged phone
Morning Yoga: The morning is fresh. One afternoon, she attended an Egyptian cooking class to learn how to prepare falafel and koshari. The chef demonstrated how to grind chickpeas for the falafel and how to balance spices for the koshari to achieve authentic flavors.
Hair Dryer Repair: The hair dryer is switched on. Enjoy warm milk tea and experience the most sincere tenderness in life's small moments. Simple deliciousness heals minor troubles and warms everyday life.
Progress begins with a single small step. With their slender bodies and flexible movements, cute ferrets dart through narrow gaps in the zoo, demonstrating the clever and agile vitality characteristic of small carnivores.🐾