Read the Highlights of Ex-Parma School Board Member J. Kevin Kelley’s Testimony in Dimora Trial

The coverage of former Parma school board member J. Kevin Kelley’s testimony in the corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora Monday focused on $400 prostitutes, trips to Vegas, profanity-filled phone taps and poker games.

But we’re just going to focus on the good parts: The education-related bits.

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, prosecutors describe Kelley as a middleman in several bribery schemes who peddled county and school board contracts and jobs. Kelley served on the Parma school board from 2000 to 2009, and pleaded guilty to charges including bribery, tax evasion and conspiracy in 2009. He’s expected to serve about six years in prison and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.

On Monday, Kelley told jurors that he:

• Took $3,000 from a Parma school district public relations fund to pay towards a graduation party bill for Dimora’s son. Kelley quote from NewsNet5:
  

  When asked why he so often paid for dinners, casino trips and other expenses for Dimora, Kelley said, “I just felt it was expected of me to pay.”

• Resigned from the Parma school board to avoid becoming a liability for the district’s upcoming tax levy proposal. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported at the time:
  

  Over the past eight years, Kelley helped hire friends whose businesses made more than $25 million in public contracts from the cash-strapped district.

• Used his position as a school board member to get a Dimora crony a job with the school district.

And that was just on Monday.