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   HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - In a shocking announcement on Monday, Harris County   
   District Attorney Kim Ogg revealed felony charges against five individuals   
   accused of orchestrating an illegal cheating scheme that granted unearned   
   certifications to hundreds of    
   Texas teachers.   
      
   According to Mike Levine, a chief in the DA Office’s Public Corruption   
   Division, the ringleader of the operation is believed to have grossed over $1   
   million through this elaborate scheme.   
      
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   Who’s charged?   
      
   Vincent Grayson, 57: Head boys basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High   
   School in Houston ISD. Grayson is charged as the organizer of the cheating   
   operation. He’s alleged to have made $1,090,000 off of the scheme.   
      
   Tywana Gilford Mason, 51: Former director and VA certifying official at the   
   Houston Training and Education Center. Mason allegedly used her position as a   
   test proctor to keep the proxy scheme hidden. She’s alleged to have made   
   $125,000 off the scheme.    
   Records indicate Gilford Mason was prosecuted for Bribery in the early   
   2000’s.   
      
   Nicholas Newton, 35: Assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School.   
   Newton is accused of participating in the scheme by acting as a proxy   
   test-taker. He’s alleged to have made $188,000 off the scheme by taking 430   
   tests.   
      
   Darian Nikole Wilhite, 22: A proctor at TACTIX who allegedly accepted bribes   
   to enable Newton's actions as a testing proxy. It’s alleged he accepted $250   
   each time he allowed the testing to take place under his watch.   
      
   LaShonda Roberts, 39: Assistant principal at Yates High School. Roberts is   
   accused of recruiting nearly 100 teachers to take part in the cheating scheme.   
   She’s alleged to have charged each teacher she recruited, some cases ‘in   
   excess of $1,000’.   
      
   All five defendants face two counts of engaging in organized criminal activity.   
      
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   Levine says this activity spans back to 2020, but it was in 2023, that the   
   Texas Education Agency noticed some irregularities at a testing location   
   ‘HTECH’.   
      
   "Often these people had previously failed the exam, they then drove to the   
   Houston area, and suddenly they were passing the test with flying colors,"   
   said Levine.   
      
   He said as TEA was investigating, they got a tip on the scheme which led to   
   more concrete evidence.   
      
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   He says TEA shut down HTECH at this time, but Grayson did not shut down the   
   scheme, and simply moved it to a different testing location, TACTIX, where he   
   allegedly recruited Wilhite.   
      
   Levine says the paying teacher would come to the testing center, check in,   
   show ID, then leave within five minutes. Newton would sit in their place and   
   take the test.   
      
   He says they caught Newton red-handed taking a test in February 2024. He says   
   Newton would often take more than one test at once.   
      
   As for the 200 teachers, who received the false certifications, information on   
   them is limited.   
      
   Ogg did say that at least two of them have been identified as sexual   
   predators, being charged with sexual crimes.   
      
   "Once falsely certified had access through their employment to underage kids   
   off campus and off. One has been charged with indecency with a child, the   
   other, online solicitation," she said.   
      
   HISD held a last-minute press conference Monday to address media questions.   
   They say all three HISD employees charged are on paid leave, and they knew   
   nothing of these acts or investigation until "very shortly" before the arrests.   
      
      
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