URBANA â Disgraced former schools superintendent Daniel Brue has been sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison for systematically looting more than $300,000 from the Meridian and Bement school districts.
Brue, 48, pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud when he appeared at the United States District Court in Urbana. He was also ordered to repay a total of $343,000 in restitution.Â
Prosecutors described his crimes, which stretched from 2011 to 2019 when he was caught, as literally robbing his students while he was being paid to take care of them.Â
âThe loss of school funding over so many years is death by a thousand papercuts,â Acting U.S. Attorney Douglas J. Quivey told U.S. District Court Judge Colin S. Bruce.Â
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