LAUSD Insider Now Hit With $22M Money Laundering

It appears that new examples of fraudsters and embezzlers are surfacing every day. In the latest, A former Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) worker has been charged with siphoning more than $22 million in taxpayers’ {dollars} into a technology company. 

Investigators described the pay-to-play scheme as one of the biggest money laundering scandals in the historical past the Los Angeles Unified School District. https://t.co/wp6Hp7yXEc pic.twitter.com/JDRI0uoAL6

— KTLA (@KTLA) March 27, 2026

A KTLA5 report on the incident has more:

A former Los Angeles Unified School District worker has been charged in what prosecutors described as a pay-to-play scheme that directed more than $22 million in contracts to a single technology company, making it one of the biggest money laundering schemes in the district’s historical past.

Since this is a faculty district worker, then it stands to purpose that these are taxpayer funds that are being funneled into a money-laundering scheme.

Officials with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office allege that between 2018 and 2022, 53-year-old Pasadena resident, Hong “Grace” Peng, who labored as a technical project supervisor for LAUSD, of illegally awarding Innive, a Texas-based tech company, hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of contracts for work on the district’s My Integrated Student Information System (MiSiS).

The proprietor of Innive, 53-year-old Flower Mound, Texas resident Gautham Sampath, is accused of then laundering more than $3 million and routing the funds to Peng through varied intermediaries.

In 2022, investigators served a search warrant at Peng’s Pasadena residence and her LAUSD office, which prosecutors say prompted her to resign from the varsity district.

Stepping away from her job is probably going to be the least of her issues. 

She has since been charged with one felony rely of money laundering and having a financial curiosity in a contract or buy made in an official capability.

A warrant has been issued for her arrest.

Sampath has also been charged with a felony rely of money laundering, having a financial curiosity in a contract or buy made in an official capability and aiding and abetting a authorities official to have a financial curiosity in a contract or buy made in an official capability.

An extradition warrant has been issued for Sampath, whose company has current authorities contracts throughout California and across the nation.

So many of these people get caught, and yet so many more appear prepared to strive to put one over on American taxpayers and American law enforcement.

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This is not just a crime. Hong “Grace” Peng was positioned in a place of trust by the mother and father and taxpayers of the Los Angeles Unified School District. She now stands accused of betraying that trust, 22 million occasions over. But she’s been caught, charged, and if convicted, will rely the price. 

If both Peng and Sampath are convicted, they each face up to seven years in a state prison. That appears too gentle, but this is California.

We will continue to watch this case and deliver you updates as issues develop.

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