Ex-school official charged with stealing chess club funds

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A former school administrator has been charged with stealing $30,000 from an Anacostia grade school chess club whose run to the national championship four years ago captured the hearts of local residents.

Federal prosecutors filed information in U.S. District Court this week that charged Sandy Jones, a former business manager with the Moten Center Special Education School, with ripping off the money from the chess club’s bank account between May 2003 and November 2003.

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