Stan Geiger

Marble City, Couch Back in the News

KOTV did another story on Larry Couch, former super of Marble City schools, last night. You remember Couch. He's the guy that stole nearly a million dollars from the school district he was running.

According to the report, Couch wasn't just stealing tax money, he was cheating on his taxes as well. The report noted a year in which Couch reportedly made $142,000 but showed an income of $24,000 on his returns. So he was getting paid, legitimately, with tax dollars, and he was stealing tax dollars on top of that, yet he was lying to avoid paying taxes. Beautiful.

More money for education? Well, hellzzzz yeah. I mean if we don't give education more tax money, the vaunted educators---those self-proclaimed most important people in your child's life---won't have anything to steal.

The report said Couch is facing up to 5 years in prison. But you know how it will go. He'll get sentenced to 5 years, then spend about 4 months in a wiener farm because we don't have cells to waste on douche bags like him.

Ironic, don't you think? We don't have cells enough to hold educator crooks because education eats all the tax money. Ya gotta get a chuckle out of that.

Restitution is part of the deal. But hey, you can't get blood out of a turnip. If Couch was smart enough to hide some of the money he stole, he does his brief time at the wiener farm, moves to Florida and lives happily ever after. And, by the way, probably still draws his educator pension for all those years of "public service."

Your tax dollars at work in public education.

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