Former Milwaukee Public Schools board member Aisha Carr must pay $2,808 in restitution as punishment for a campaign violation and misreporting her income to qualify for state assistance.
The order by Circuit Judge Jorge Fragoso was handed down during a May 28 hearing.
Prosecutors filed multiple charges against Carr in April 2024 following an investigation that was conducted during her time on the board, from 2021 until May 2024, the month when she abruptly resigned.
Investigators uncovered irregularities that, according to prosecutors, showed Carr filed fraudulent campaign finance reports and misappropriated campaign funds from it for her personal use.
Carr also was charged in September with omitting “thousands of dollars of income from her application” for the food assistance program FoodShare in order to receive the public funds.
As a result of the misreported income, she received $2,808 in FoodShare benefits between June and December 2023 that she otherwise would not have been eligible for, the complaint alleged.
Carr pleaded guilty in December to a felony campaign finance reporting violation and was given 18 months of probation.
As part of the agreement, prosecutors dropped another 11 campaign-related charges she faced in the matter, along with a separate case accusing her of food stamp fraud.
Fragoso ordered Carr’s restitution be paid to the state Department of Health Services as a condition of her probation. Any amount she doesn’t pay is subject to civil judgment.
The felony conviction bars her from voting until her sentence is complete.
Chris Ramirez covers courts for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at caramirez@usatodayco.com.
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