An administrator in California’s Reef-Sunset Unified School District faces allegations she used invoices for board games, book sets, and other “student incentives” as a cover for gift card purchases for herself.

An audit requested by the Kings County Office of Education found invoices submitted by Reef-Sunset chief business officer Michelle Cutillo were faked to justify $289,000 in gift cards she purchased with district funds since 2006, the Fresno Bee reports.

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Reef-Sunset superintendent David East told the news site the Kings County Office of Education launched the probe based on an anonymous tip made to the Avenal Police Department, but would not comment on whether Cutillo is still employed with the district.

“It is clear that the purchase of gift cards was excessive and controls over them severely lacking,” according to the audit. “It was apparent that the extent of these purchase was kept from administration and other business office staff. The descriptions on the fictitious invoices were meant to hide what the actual purchases were for; gift cards.”

Most of those cards are now missing.

According to The Hanford Sentinel:

An extraordinary audit performed estimated that Cutillo bought $289,507 worth of gift cards, of which $28,260 worth was disbursed to school sites. The report states that $83,595 worth of gift cards was potentially stolen from a safe in 2009, which was reported to police.

According to the auditors, only $58,688 worth of gift cards were on hand at the district, leaving $118,965 potentially unaccounted for.

The audit also details a Cutillo’s attempt to arrange for $5,000 worth of gift cards from a local restaurant for an alleged field trip. Other allegations involve a school employee she invited to her home to count more than $40,000 in cash that purportedly came from student technology fees, the Bee reports.

“Due to the lack of documentation, it is impossible to determine if that $40,423.46 of cash on hand at Michelle Cutillo’s house was all that she had collected from the sites over the years,” according to the audit. “Although the amount is more than what can be documented in our attempts, it is not to say that the actual cash collected by Michelle from the sites over the yeas was well over that amount.”

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East said the money for the alleged gift card scam came from a grant-funded after-school program, and the case has been forwarded to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.

“This audit has been going on since last February,” he said. “It’s just good to get closure.”

Todd Barlow, superintendent of Kings County schools, wrote in an email to The Sentinel that the audit was also sent to the state superintendent and state controller for consideration.

“It is … important that anyone who may have committed fraud, misappropriation of funds, or other illegal fiscal practices be fully investigated and, if determined to have committed such wrongdoings, be held accountable,” he said.

Parents, meanwhile, are questioning whether the gift card scam was just the tip of a much bigger iceberg.

“The audit only goes back so far and she’s been there a long time,” parent Veronica Aguirre told the Bee. “She’s been the keeper of the purse strings.”