Saturday, February 20, 1999
Principal answers charges a 2nd time
Mann denies fraud, perjury
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — School principal Terry Mann pleaded not guilty again Friday to federal charges that he illegally was paid as an administrator when he was not qualified for the job.
Mr. Mann appeared in U.S. District Court in Covington and was arraigned on six counts of mail fraud and two counts of perjury. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to five years and fined $250,000 on each count.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Patterson asked Mr. Mann whether he understood the charges. She then reminded him and his attorney, Steve Pence of Louisville, that Chief Judge William O. Bertelsman thinks it is “most inappropriate” for them to comment about the case to the news media.
Federal prosecutors say Mr. Mann, 49, a former state legislator, altered records to indicate he had completed training that ma dehim eligible for the principal's position. That led to the mail fraud charges, leveled because his records about his qualifications were delivered via mail. The indictment says that between 1980 and 1995, Mr. Mann received more than $187,000 in salary to which he was not entitled because he did not have the proper certification.
The perjury accusations stem from prosecutors' claims that he lied to a grand jury about the qualifications and about a 50-inch TV bought by Holmes High School that ended up at his house. He testified, according to the indictment, that he did not know whether a television was removed from the school.
Mr. Mann remains principal of Chapman Academic Vocational School in Covington.
This is the second time he has been indicted and arraigned on charges related to the same investigation. Some previous charges of theft and mail fraud were dismissed by Judge Bertelsman in 1997. An appeals court agreed in January.
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