April Black and Amanda Jelleson, co-founders of the Incito charter schools, have been indicted on fraud and theft charges.
According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Black and Jelleson are accused of a nearly $568,000 fraud scheme that allegedly occurred between November 2016 and November 2017.
Black and Jelleson are accused of providing falsified information including pay stubs to the Maricopa County Superintendent’s Office in order to obtain grant funding that wasn’t provided to the appropriate teachers.
Public records show that Jelleson appears to have worked in the Maricopa County Superintendent Office’s Education Service Agency as an Education Service Program Manager from 2015 to 2017.
Black and Jelleson are charged with five felonies including: fraudulent schemes and artifices, conspiracy, two counts of theft over $25,000 and one count of forgery.