CHICAGO (AP) – Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett is no longer in the federal prison where she was sent after pleading guilty in a multi-million dollar kickback scheme. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the 70-year-old Byrd-Bennett still is technically in federal prison custody but she has left the minimum security facility in West Virginia and is now assigned to a residential re-entry office in Cincinnati. Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty in 2016 to fraud charges for her part in a scheme that steered $23 million in no-bid contracts to two education firms for a more than $2 million kickback.
