ALABAMA, USA — Weeks after being indicted on one count of Conspiracy in a wide-ranging fraud case, former Limestone County Superintendent Tom Sisk filed an intent to change his plea to "guilty".
Sisk is one of six people indicted in a case that alleges:
"...the defendants conspired to fraudulently enroll students in public virtual schools and then falsely report those students to the Alabama State Department of Education. As a result of this, districts received payments from Alabama’s Education Trust Fund as if the students actually attended public schools. The various defendants then received, for their own personal use, portions of the state money. The defendants skimmed the state money through direct cash payments and payments to third-party contractors owned by the various co-conspirators."
Other involved in the case are former, Athens City Schools Superintendent William "Trey" Holladay, former Athens City School teacher Deborah Irby Holladay, William Richard Carter, Jr., Gregory Earl Corkren, and David Webb Tutt. All were indicted on one or more charges in connection with the alleged fraud.
Sisk's plea hearing is scheduled for April 8, 2021. He left Limestone County Schools to become the director of Bristol, TN schools. He left that post in February of 2020.
Former Athens City Schools Superintendent William "Trey" Holladay was indicted on one charge of Conspiracy and dozens of charges of Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft. Holladay was on leave from June 2020 until his last day with the district on Oct. 31, 2020.
Former Athens City School teacher Deborah Irby Holladay was indicted on one charge of Conspiracy and numerous charges of Wire Fraud.