The Broward School District has been unable to collect more than $300,000 that auditors say were overbilled by a former supplier of graduation caps and gowns, a new audit shows. The district issued a demand letter dated Oct. 24, 2023, to Chuck Puleri and Associates, the district’s former vendor for Herff Jones graduation products, for $301,489 in October, according to a Jan. 5 letter from .
A former supplier of caps and gowns for Broward County’s graduating seniors will not face criminal charges related to allegations that he overcharged students and parents while giving perks to school officials, the prosecutor’s office says. The Broward State Attorney’s Office concluded that the district “ineffectively managed” contracts involving Herff Jones and its former Broward .
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Herff Jones executives and lobbyists have spent the last three months trying to persuade the School Board to keep the company, but the School Board votes to terminate.
Chuck Puleri, Broward County’s exclusive distributor of Herff Jones products since 1992, is also being dropped by the Broward school district, due to a scathing audit the school district commissioned in response to a series of South Florida Sun Sentinel investigations.