Unfortunately, it turns out that the City of Houston is not the only government district plagued with dishonest employees.

A former employee of the Galena Park Independent School District Education Foundation was indicted Tuesday by a Harris County Grand Jury on theft charges.

The indictment charges that Renea Jones Taylor, the foundation’s senior project coordinator, wrote 67 checks to herself during a two-year period. The amount of the checks totaled more than $195,000.

She sure made the Bonusgate Four looke like pikers; they got $143,000 between them; this lady singlehandedly grabbed herself near $200k. The disturbing factor is that she resigned when the investigation began… in May. If the DA’s office took that long for a simple case of theft, the more complicated schemes of the Bonusgate four, and the wider investigation required, mean it should take even longer. While Bonusgate will be higher priority and be able to call on greater resources, if it is handled too quickly, we’ll know it wasn’t particularly thorough….