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Calvin Walker work van
“What’s fair for one is fair for all,” Jefferson County Criminal District Court Judge John Stevens said from the bench Nov. 10 as he sentenced former Beaumont ISD electrical contractor Calvin Walker to begin a jury-imposed sentence that contained jail time. Walker was convicted of perpetrating more than $1 million in fraud on the school district in 2019. Walker's attorneys, led by Houston-based Dick DeGuerin, filed a writ of certiorari at the 9th Court of Appeals “a few moments before” arriving in Stevens' court on Thursday, the judge said.
Walker should report for probation by 5 p.m. on Nov. 10, and weekend confinement at the Jefferson County Jail on Friday, Nov. 11, by 6 p.m. to be released on Monday, Nov. 14, at 6 a.m. In total, Walker will have to report for 180 days of incarceration, over the course of successive weekends, and serve 10 years on probation. Restitution in excess of $1.7 million and a $1,000 fine are also due. DeGuerin said that Beaumont ISD does not want the restitution.
“Whatever they decide to do with it is their business,” Stevens said of money he added was owed to the children of BISD due to Walker's criminality. “It’s been several years… and we’re going to move forward now.”
The ill-gotten funds came from bond issue money, DeGuerin clarified.
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