Bob Schaffer: “something pretty positive happened in Hyattsville, Maryland that I want to discuss; it happened particularly at a…”

“something pretty positive happened in Hyattsville, Maryland that I want to discuss; it happened particularly at a Chevrolet dealership, at the Lustine Chevrolet dealership. It was there that a sales agent happened upon a scandal that affects the United States Department of Education, a theft of about $2 million that this sales agent stumbled upon and called the FBI, and it resulted in a hearing that was conducted earlier today in the Committee on Education and the Workforce; specifically, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The Justice Department, back in July of 2000, filed a claim in Federal court that Impact Aid funds, these are the funds that are sent to assist districts responsible for educating children connected with Federal facilities; military installations usually, sometimes Indian reservations, that these Impact Aid funds intended for two school districts in South Dakota were stolen on March 31 of this year. These alleged facts were presented in the Justice Department's complaint for forfeiture, which it filed in order to recover the stolen money and property and try to get these dollars back to the children in South Dakota.”