In just under a year’s time, of the more than $1 million in restitution that contract electrician Calvin Gary Walker was ordered to pay the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) for felony fraud committed on the public entity, the working businessowner has ponied up just $150 – or about $10 per month, according to the Jefferson County probation officer overseeing the criminal’s debt to society. Now, with a self-reported revoked electrician’s license in Texas and a monthly Social Security check in the mail, Walker wants to branch out to conduct business in Louisiana, as well.
In November 2022, Walker was sentenced to serve 180 days of incarceration over the course of successive weekends and 10 years of probationary supervision, as well as pay restitution in excess of $1.7 million an...
