Former financial aid director for Reynolds Community College pleads guilty in $379K theft of student loan and grant funds

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The former director of financial aid at Reynolds Community College has pleaded guilty in Richmond federal court to wire fraud in connection with a scheme she orchestrated to defraud Virginia and the U.S. Department of Education of $379,602 in federal and state student loan and grant funds over eight years.

In accordance with a plea agreement, Kiesha Lashawn Pope, 47, entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud that was part of a five-count indictment issued in February that charged her with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identify theft.

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