{"id":136648,"date":"2017-12-05T22:08:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136648"},"modified":"2017-12-05T22:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T03:08:49","slug":"fraud-probe-related-to-hamilton-school-board-leads-to-charges-against-2-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/fraud-probe-related-to-hamilton-school-board-leads-to-charges-against-2-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud probe related to Hamilton school board leads to charges against 2 men"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128008\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1531277_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1531277_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Police say they began investigating credit card transactions conducted during the course by a former board superintendent after receiving information from the board in May 2016.(Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1531277_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1531277_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/car-1531277_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police say they began investigating credit card transactions conducted during the course by a former board superintendent after receiving information from the board in May 2016.<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/car-police-cars-caravan-sirens-red-1531277\/\">(Pixabay photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hamilton police say two men are charged with fraud following a lengthy investigation involving the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they began investigating credit card transactions conducted during the course by a former board superintendent after receiving information from the board in May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say 57-year-old Patrick Rocco of Fonthill, Ont., is charged with three counts of fraud under $5,000, making a forged document and using a forged document.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also alleged that Rocco, with the help of another board employee, falsified documents that were submitted to the U.S. Department of State relating to citizenship for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>Rocco and 46-year-old Patrick Elliot of Niagara Falls, Ont., are jointly charged with two counts each of making a forged document, using a forged document and transferring a forged document.<\/p>\n<p>Both accused are scheduled to appear in Hamilton court in January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton police say two men are charged with fraud following a lengthy investigation involving the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Police &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[37217,15509,37218],"class_list":["post-136648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-fraud-probe-related-to-hamilton-school-board-leads-to-charges-against-2-men","tag-hamilton-police","tag-hamilton-wentworth-district-school-board","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}