Federal grand jury subpoenaed documents from LA Unified

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Los Angeles school district officials turned over 20 boxes of documents in response to a federal grand jury subpoena for documents related to its troubled iPad project. The subpoena asked for documents related to the bidding process as well as to the winning bidders in the $1.3-billion effort to provide a computer to every student, teacher and campus administrator.

The contract, approved in June 2013, was with Apple to supply iPads; Pearson provided the curriculum as a subcontractor. The investigation is a broad one, seeking records related to Apple and Pearson that predate the bidding process or that involve other projects, according to the subpoena. The documents sought include all "score sheets; complete notepads, notebooks and binders; reports; contracts; agreements; consent forms; files; notices; agenda; meetings notes and minutes; instructions; accounting records” and much more. The FBI seizure was part of the first law-enforcement investigation of technology effort.


Federal grand jury subpoenaed documents from LA Unified