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“I just have to hope that the truth comes out,” says Schrenko
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Georgia school Superintendent Linda Schrenko smiled on her way into the federal courthouse today and said her public corruption trial seems to be going well – so far.
Government witnesses have pinned much of the alleged scheme to swipe federal education dollars and funnel them into Schrenko’s failed 2002 gubernatorial campaign on her co-defendants, computer executive A. Stephan Botes and Bote’s former chief operating officer, Peter Steyn.
“I’m definitely pleased my name is not coming up because I wasn’t involved in all of this,” she told reporters. “I know eventually it will come up and I just have to hope that the truth comes out.”
But the key witness against Schrenko, her former deputy Merle Temple, has not yet testified.
Outside the courthouse, Botes, a former multimillionaire, scoffed at being placed on house arrest Friday, with FBI agents watching his Alpharetta home at Country Club of the South through the weekend. Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell Vineyard told the judge Botes’ ties to Atlanta were waning and he feared Botes might flee to his estate home on the edge of the Indian Ocean in South Africa.
“What a bunch of nonsense,” Botes said on his way into the courthouse. “Look at my house, there’s nothing packed.”
Testimony in the case continues today.
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