The untouchables have swooped on a US school and taken the Los Angeles Unified School District for records pertaining to its $1 billion iPad project as part of a federal grand jury probe.

The Apple project has been plagued with problems since its rollout last year. The requested records include proposal-scoring documents, review committee files and employee information, among other materials. The district's Common Core Technology Project aimed to provide 21st century learning devices to all of the district's 650,000 students, chipping away at the technology divide that often leaves lower-income students at a disadvantage from their more affluent peers.

The question was why the hell they were using Apple gear. The school board was told that Apple was the cheapest and the best quality by school’s superintendent John Deasy and they never thought to question it. However it turned out that Deasy was a big Apple fanboy and had $7,793.70 worth of Apple shares in the outfit. He also had carried out promotional videos for Jobs’ Mob a year before the bidding and appeared to have given them the inside leg measurement of the spec.  

The district used a scoring system based on factors other than price to eliminate most of the teams competing with Apple. It might have been ok if the expensive Apple gear had worked. But its “super sophisticated” security software was by-passed in minutes.
Ariel Neuman, a former federal prosecutor, said the government is likely investigating possible fraud involving the contracts.

"If someone doesn't disclose a relationship they have with Apple," he said, "those could be material omissions that could lead to a wire or mail fraud case."