Thirteen Detroit principals charged with bribery in alleged kickback scheme.

A vendor named Arthur Shy allegedly paid bribes to over a dozen principals in the Detroit school system in order to charge the district for school supplies they never received.

According to the charges, Shy paid the principals $900,000. In return, Shy allegedly charged the district over $5 million for supplies, of which over $2.7 million was fraudulent.

Now, you might be thinking, "Isn't Detroit desperately broke? Aren't many of Detroit's schools crumbling and badly in need of repair? Are people really this corrupt to shaft children?"

Yes.

Yes.

And yes.