"didn't have no formal education" but knows business really well, and just wants to help (himself).  

Perhaps I've had too close a brush with this problem, since the board member above ended up getting a few choice, juicy school contracts, and ultimately had to make a hasty exit from the board.

There was one egregious deal, in which he somehow ended up mysteriously receiving ten $50,000 checks (all numbered the same, but each issued on official school check paper, plus other variables I shall not mention, and of course all deposited over a number of months--an honest mistake, one that can happen to any hardworking contractor, a good ol' boy school board member) as payment for one $50,000 tennis court resurfacing contract.  

And then there's the remaining lesser educated members who couldn't seem to fathom anything was wrong for those ten years, yet money seemed to just melt away from certain accounts, and the system kept running a bit short on supply budgets for classrooms.  Eventually, there was an investigation that ultimately turned up a ten year history of fraud, a loss of $10 million worth, which I happened to uncover as a computer analyst migrating their 'system' and data to a professional accounting system.  Finding transactions totaled $10 million off the expected value was something that got the incoming Superintendent's attention.

And it wasn't the college educated set doing the coordinated fraud and theft, well except for the affable, grandmotherly school system's ex-treasurer, yet she was also someone who never was formally trained in accounting...I guess book learnin' can just get in the way of a real imagination.