SHARON State revokes the license of former teacher

SHARON, Pa. -- The state Department of Education has revoked the license of a former Sharon teacher based on his guilty plea to federal charges of mail fraud.
The state confirmed Tuesday that the license of Bernard J. Krispinsky, 57, formerly an elementary physical education teacher in Sharon City School District, was revoked earlier this year.
Krispinsky retired from teaching several years ago.
He was sentenced in March 2001 to spend four months in a federal community confinement center, followed by four months of in-house detention and three years' probation for mail fraud.
He was also ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution to settle a civil case filed against him in a related matter.
Krispinsky, who now lives in Hermitage and served on the Hermitage School Board for four years, pleaded guilty in January 2001 to one count of mail fraud, admitting that he sent false and misleading statements and written reports to members of the Thousand Dollar Club, an investment group he helped form.
Federal authorities said he was the investment adviser and fund director for the investment club and, between June 1996 and November 1997, he falsely reported the value of the investment account to club members.
They, and others from two other investment groups in which he was involved, sued him in common pleas court. The $20,000 restitution was to settle that suit, federal officials said.