A school board member for one of the largest school districts in America allegedly embezzled $175,000 from a company where he worked, and spent the money on luxuries, including strip clubs, as well as to subsidize his campaign for office, a lawsuit alleges.
Democrat Kyle McDaniel is the budget chair for Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools (FCPS), which has a $3 billion budget.
A previously-unreported lawsuit filed March 13 in Loudoun County court by his employer, flight school Blue Label Aviation, said that McDaniel abused his position as Secretary and Treasurer of the company, with access to its credit cards and bank accounts, to charge “personal expenses related to to personal travel, meals, entertainment and even expenses related to the defendant’s political campaign for the Fairfax County School Board.”
In June 2024, Blue Label’s CEO, Timothy Fischer, confronted him about $120,000 in improper charges, and “the defendant confessed and agreed to pay back the misappropriated funds,” ultimately paying back $50,000.
But in December 2024, Fischer “discovered that, not only had the defendant not ceased misappropriating the company’s funds for his personal use, he had vastly expanded his use of the company’s credit cards and bank accounts for his personal expenses,” charging $160,000 “for everything from vacations with his family, to meals, charges at a local strip club and a strip club in New Orleans, groceries and personal household expenses.”
On January 22, McDaniel was confronted and allegedly confessed again, and Fischer gave him the opportunity to resign without paying the money back in exchange for relinquishing his shares in the company and turning over its credit cards, the lawsuit said. McDaniel said he wanted time to consult a lawyer, but within days, Fischer allegedly saw even more unauthorized charges, and terminated him. “Fischer thereafter continued to observe that new, non-business-related charges were being made to the company credit card,” it said.
The company’s board met to approve his resignation, but McDaniel refused to cooperate with removing his name from corporate bank accounts, the suit said. McDaniel also deleted all of his work emails and performed other “suspicious activity,” it added.
The suit alleges embezzlement and misappropriation and says the company “has been injured in the amount of” $175,000. It seeks that amount, as well as punitive damages of $350,000, on top of requiring him to turn over his corporate credit cards and remove himself from the bank accounts.
McDaniel did not return a request for comment.
McDaniel won an election representing the entire 1.4 million-person county as an at-large member on the all-Democrat board, his second stint on the board. His school board bio says: “Kyle McDaniel (he/him) began his term as a Member At-Large on January 1, 2024 … [He] started two companies with his family. As a result of the COVID pandemic, both companies were closed in early 2020. With a newborn at home, he quickly pivoted to aviation and became a professional pilot.”
The Fairfax County government is facing a $300 million budget shortfall after FCPS spent nearly $142 million on English as a Second Language in 2024.
The school board’s chair is Karl Frisch, a gay man with no children who held a campaign fundraiser at a drag show, reportedly followed hardcore pornography accounts on social media, and was sworn in on a copy of “Gender Queer” instead of a Bible.
FCPS allegedly sold blueprints and private information about its magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, to China in exchange for $3.6 million to a nonprofit, while also undermining the rigor of its own school in the name of racial equity.
FCPS put a professional sex therapist focused on “navigating non-monogamy (i.e., polyamory, open relationships, swingers, monogamish, throuples, etc.), kinky sex (e.g., BDSM, group sex, fetish) [and] painful sex” in charge of determining which books were appropriate for children.
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A school board member for one of the largest school districts in America allegedly embezzled $175,000 from a company where he worked, and spent the money on luxuries, including strip clubs, as well as to subsidize his campaign for office, a lawsuit alleges.
Democrat Kyle McDaniel is the budget chair for Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools (FCPS), which has a $3 billion budget.
A previously-unreported lawsuit filed March 13 in Loudoun County court by his employer, flight school Blue Label Aviation, said that McDaniel abused his position as Secretary and Treasurer of the company, with access to its credit cards and bank accounts, to charge “personal expenses related to to personal travel, meals, entertainment and even expenses related to the defendant’s political campaign for the Fairfax County School Board.”
In June 2024, Blue Label’s CEO, Timothy Fischer, confronted him about $120,000 in improper charges, and “the defendant confessed and agreed to pay back the misappropriated funds,” ultimately paying back $50,000.
But in December 2024, Fischer “discovered that, not only had the defendant not ceased misappropriating the company’s funds for his personal use, he had vastly expanded his use of the company’s credit cards and bank accounts for his personal expenses,” charging $160,000 “for everything from vacations with his family, to meals, charges at a local strip club and a strip club in New Orleans, groceries and personal household expenses.”
On January 22, McDaniel was confronted and allegedly confessed again, and Fischer gave him the opportunity to resign without paying the money back in exchange for relinquishing his shares in the company and turning over its credit cards, the lawsuit said. McDaniel said he wanted time to consult a lawyer, but within days, Fischer allegedly saw even more unauthorized charges, and terminated him. “Fischer thereafter continued to observe that new, non-business-related charges were being made to the company credit card,” it said.
The company’s board met to approve his resignation, but McDaniel refused to cooperate with removing his name from corporate bank accounts, the suit said. McDaniel also deleted all of his work emails and performed other “suspicious activity,” it added.
The suit alleges embezzlement and misappropriation and says the company “has been injured in the amount of” $175,000. It seeks that amount, as well as punitive damages of $350,000, on top of requiring him to turn over his corporate credit cards and remove himself from the bank accounts.
McDaniel did not return a request for comment.
McDaniel won an election representing the entire 1.4 million-person county as an at-large member on the all-Democrat board, his second stint on the board. His school board bio says: “Kyle McDaniel (he/him) began his term as a Member At-Large on January 1, 2024 … [He] started two companies with his family. As a result of the COVID pandemic, both companies were closed in early 2020. With a newborn at home, he quickly pivoted to aviation and became a professional pilot.”
The Fairfax County government is facing a $300 million budget shortfall after FCPS spent nearly $142 million on English as a Second Language in 2024.
The school board’s chair is Karl Frisch, a gay man with no children who held a campaign fundraiser at a drag show, reportedly followed hardcore pornography accounts on social media, and was sworn in on a copy of “Gender Queer” instead of a Bible.
FCPS allegedly sold blueprints and private information about its magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, to China in exchange for $3.6 million to a nonprofit, while also undermining the rigor of its own school in the name of racial equity.
FCPS put a professional sex therapist focused on “navigating non-monogamy (i.e., polyamory, open relationships, swingers, monogamish, throuples, etc.), kinky sex (e.g., BDSM, group sex, fetish) [and] painful sex” in charge of determining which books were appropriate for children.
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