In early 2007, Robin Donlan was being investigated  by the FBI, SEC, US
Justice Department and the IRS.  

The San Diego Union Tribune couldn't confirm this, but the San Diego
Education Report was able to confirm it.   The access logs for this site
showed that all of these government entities had been doing internet
searches for Robin Donlan.  The SD Union Tribune wrote on May 4, 2007:
"The Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, the U.S. Attorney General's Office
and the San Diego District Attorney's Office all would neither confirm nor
deny any criminal investigation."

Maybe the next time Robin Donlan tells lies about a fellow teacher, the
district will do an investigation, instead of catering to her every whim.  
CVESD fired two excellent teachers to please Robin Donlan and her "Castle
Park Family."  The fact that this "family" was committing crimes didn't seem
to phase the board at all.  Kim Simmons, a prominent member of the "Family"
was arrested last year for embezzling up to $20,000 from the Castle Park
Elementary PTA.  

The CVESD board members (Cheryl Cox, Patrick Judd, Pam Smith, Larry
Cunningham and Bertha Lopez) spent $100,000's of public money to cover
up Donlan's crimes.  The board also pressured teachers and administrators to
commit perjury.  

The board was aided in this endeavor by Donlan's close friend Gina Boyd,
former Chula Vista Educator's president, and Jim Groth, current CVE
president, as well as CTA president Barbara Kerr and CTA head counsel
Beverly Tucker.

On May 4, 2007, Robin Donlan was served along with her husband Vence
with a $7.7 million lawsuit for fraudulently issuing stock options for local San
Diego company Wireless Facilities, where Vence Donlan once was employed.
 Vence Donlan was in charge of entering Wireless Facilities' stock options
data into company software.  Robin and Vence sold the options at an
enormous profit, and went on a real estate spending spree.

"The accusation that an options administrator defrauded a company of stock
is unusual and suggests another avenue of wrongdoing that has, as yet, gone
undetected," wrote Kathryn Balint and Keith Darce of the San Diego Union
Tribune.  

The Union Tribune was a huge supporter of Robin Donlan when she was
transferred out of Castle Park Elementary.  Along with La Prensa and the
Chula Vista Star-News, the Union Trib published glowing stories about Ms.
Donlan, and ugly accusations against Lowell Billings and Ollie Matos, the
administrators who transferred her.  All these newspapers knew about Robin
Donlan's crimes at Castle Park Elementary, but refused to print a single word
about them.
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Robin Donlan made a lot of accusations
against her fellow employees from
1999 through 2004 at Chula Vista
Elementary School District.  Her major
targets were principal
Ollie Matos,  
Superintendent Lowell Billings, and
fellow teacher Maura Larkins.

The school district, including Cheryl Cox
and the four other board members,
spent hundreds of thousands of tax
dollars covering up Donlan's crimes
against Maura Larkins. The school board
pressured employees to commit perjury
about destroyed
documents, among
other things.  

The district probably expected some
gratitude from Donlan for helping her so
much, but they got something very
different.


In August 2004, when Superintendent
Billings and principal Matos transferred
Donlan out of Castle Park Elementary
School, where
Donlan had initiated a
crime wave, Donlan and fellow
transferred teachers Peggie Myers,
Nikki Perez and Stephenie Parker
Pettit, along with Donlan's personal
friend Gina Boyd (President of Chula
Vista Educators) and PTA presidents
Kim Simmons and Felicia Starr began a
very public smear campaign against
these two administrators.  

In 2005 Kim Simmons was arrested for
embezzling $20,000 from the Castle
Park Elementary PTA.


This site has long maintained that Robin
Colls Donlan made
false accusations to
cover up her own wrongdoing, which
included crimes.

Proof of perjury by Robin Donlan's
brother Michael Carlson, regarding his
and Robin Doig Donlan's criminal
actions at CVESD, is contained in court
exhibits.

Gina Boyd and CTA lawyers Michael D.
Hersh and Beverly Tucker
destroyed
documents and committed perjury to
cover up Robin Donlan's and Linda
Watson's crimes against Maura Larkins.
Did someone push
Vence Donlan into
committing stock
options fraud?

How did so many people who
were close to Robin Donlan
become involved in criminal
activity?  

These individuals include:
Donlan's brother, Michael Carlson
her PTA friend,
her fellow teachers,
her union (California Teachers
Association),
her school district, Commander
Sam Gross of Santa Barbara
Sheriff's department, her lawyers,
and finally, and most distressingly,
her husband, a former navy pilot
and school teacher who is now
serving an almost-4-year federal
prison sentence.

Robin's husband Vence Donlan
was never in trouble before he
married Robin.  What caused him
to begin to commit stock option
theft a few months after he
married Robin?

Could it have been pressure from
his wife?

That was certainly the reason that
CTA, CVESD, teachers at Robin's
school, and law enforcement and
lawyers became involved in
criminal activities.  Robin Donlan
put them in a position where they
had to violate the law or push
back against pressure.  Sadly,
they all decided to break the law.

I suspect that Robin was fearful in
March 2002, when she learned
that her fellow teachers had been
sued, that her involvement in the
wrongdoing would eventually be
exposed.  

She married Vence Donlan in
early 2002, perhaps in part
because she feared that her role
in the wrongdoing would be
exposed, and she wanted the
support of a husband.  Possibly
she expressed fear to her
husband that she would have to
pay a lot of money in a lawsuit,
and he felt the need to provide
her with a lot of money.
Chula Vista Elementary School District
$7 million fraud
$20,000 PTA embezzlement
and Labor Code 432.7 criminal violations
Robin Donlan and Chula
Vista Elementary School
District
Latest CVESD lawsuit:
the Danielle Coziahr
case
CVESD teacher Robin Donlan
SD Education Rprt Blog
Robin Donlan now teaches next to
Barbara Dunwoodie,
one of the Chula
Vista Educators board members who
helped cover up her crimes at Castle Park.
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