Followup: The Missing Chess Money

Among the examples in our recent investigation of thefts from student funds in the D.C. public schools was the more than $50,000 taken from charitable donations to the student chess club at the Moten school. It was a 2003 column by The Post's Marc Fisher that prompted the donations. Today Marc writes in his Raw Fisher blog how he felt when he learned from last week's investigation that most of those donations had been stolen.
By The Editors |
November 13, 2007; 3:18 PM ET
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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
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