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Contractor who defrauded schools hands over cars, $1 million.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Jennifer Autrey
FORT WORTH, Texas _ Before his successful scheme to defraud the Fort Worth school district ended, contractor Ray Brooks amassed a collection of luxury vehicles that most men only dream about.
Two Jaguars. Two Corvettes. A Mercedes-Benz SL500 roadster. A Lexus sport utility vehicle.
Now the school district has most of them, as well as dozens of other vehicles once owned by Brooks.
After Brooks and former maintenance supervisor Tommy Ingram pleaded guilty in March to a kickback scheme that cost the district millions of dollars, the district and the U.S. attorney's office intervened in Brooks' divorce as a way to ...
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