1st Trial Looms in Theft Scandal Exposed by Family's Deaths

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A former business employee at a Platte-based educational cooperative charged in an embezzlement scheme that helped spark a South Dakota scandal is heading to trial on theft charges.

Jury selection starts Monday in Sioux Falls for Stephanie Hubers, a onetime Mid-Central Educational Cooperative staffer accused of getting more than $50,000 to keep quiet about embezzlement by Mid-Central's business manager and his wife before their deaths in 2015.

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