Consultant to the Schools Stole Millions, Officials Say though, that's not the half of it: "Mr. Lanham, who was being paid $200,000 a year by the city, used layers of contractors and subcontractors to hide his scheme, and each of them profited a little from it, according to the federal complaint." And it appears that Verizon and IBM overbilled the Dept. of Ed on top of being part of the scam...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/nyregion/consultant-to-schools-stole-millions-officials-say.html