{"id":6191,"date":"2026-10-21T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/20m-college-fraud-case-sparks-political-fallout\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:38:55","slug":"20m-college-fraud-case-sparks-political-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/20m-college-fraud-case-sparks-political-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"$20M College Fraud Case Sparks Political Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ohio indictment alleges education funds were diverted through private companies as Rhode Island Democratic Party chair resigns and a successor is named. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio \u2013 October 21, 2026 (STL.News) Fraud \u2013 A sweeping criminal investigation into the alleged diversion of approximately $20 million in education funding from a now-defunct Ohio community college has triggered political consequences hundreds of miles away in Rhode Island, where the chairwoman of the state Democratic Party resigned following the indictment of her husband. Michael Perik, a Rhode Island businessman involved in education consulting, is among three defendants indicted in Jefferson County, Ohio, on felony<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/20m-college-fraud-case-sparks-political-fallout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio indictment alleges education funds were diverted through private companies as Rhode Island Democratic Party chair resigns and a successor is named. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio \u2013 October 21, 2026 (STL.News) Fraud \u2013 A sweeping criminal investigation into the alleged diversion of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6193,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}