California education officials have released an audit into a local school district and its ties to a private boarding school in China, finding “sufficient evidence” of “fraud, misappropriation of funds, or other illegal fiscal practices.”
Riverside County Superintendent of Schools Edwin Gomez said the 1,000-plus-page report “identified serious concerns that merit further review by the appropriate authorities” and that the district attorney, among other authorities, had been notified.
The audit, spurred by a June 2021 investigation by Business Insider, looked at the relationship between the Val Verde Unified School District and Pegasus California School, more than 6,000 miles away in Qingdao, China, and the involvement of former government officials.
