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A California wastewater official faces felony state court charges of diverting public funds for personal use, after allegedly using municipal money to pay for an employee's tuition at Lincoln Law School.
Besides using city funds to cover employee Marisa Tricas’ law school tuition, Kenneth Glotzbach, who served as the city of Roseville’s assistant director of wastewater utilities and the executive director of its wastewater authority, is accused of misleading the city council for $173,000 in funds to cover her work with a consulting group, and using his city credit card to pay for her move from the East Coast to California, before she was a city employee.
Lincoln Law School, which is located in Sacramento, does not have ABA accreditation. Tuition is $7,150 a semester for first-year classes, according to its website.
The city of Roseville paid $14,454 for Tricas’ two semesters at the law school, according to a Roseville Police Department case summary.
It claims Glotzbach contacted Lincoln Law School and asked that it create a special invoice for tuition, with Tricas’ student identification number but not her name. He also asked that the bills be sent directly to him, the summary states. He is further accused of creating a $20,000 purchase order from his department payable to Lincoln Law School for “course development services, instructional and training” which was billed as an administrative expense. According to the case summary, Glotzbach told...
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