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Catch Me If You Can (opens the original)
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This is Part 2 of a two-part investigation.In Part 1, I described how Mt. Diablo Unified paid a contractor named Fabrizio Arenas, doing business as Legion Food Trucks, $139,429.98 for a food truck it never received. The district sued and won a default judgment in April 2025.Read Part 1 here.But the district hasn’t seen a penny of the money it’s owed. Here’s what I found when I tried to track down Arenas myself.Mounting Legal Troubles<
It’s Shockingly Easy to Get a School District to Cut You a Six-Figure Check (opens the original)
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This is Part 1 of a two-part investigation. Mt. Diablo Unified paid a contractor $140,000 for a food truck it never received. It’s not the only district that has done this.Read Part 2 here.A few years after food trucks exploded as a trendy phenomenon in the 2010s, school districts, especially in California, started trying to get in on the action.In Mt. Diablo Unified in Contra Costa County, Nutrition Services Director Dominic Machi pushed his d
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