Porn-Buying Ex-Superintendent Charged With Theft, Forgery In Cook County

SUMMIT, IL – The former superintendent of a suburban school district was charged in Cook County with spending money on porn, among other things, prosecutors said Friday.

In January 2025, Patch first reported on the questionable spending by William Toulios, superintendent of Argo Community High School in Summit.

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Toulios, who resigned under pressure last November, was charged with theft of government property between $10,000 and $100,000, forgery and official misconduct. Toulios pleaded not guilty Friday.

"Every dollar entrusted to a school district is meant to support students, classrooms and educational opportunities – not personal expenses," Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said in a statement. "Public officials who abuse taxpayer resources for their own personal gain are not above the law."

Toulios, who tried to change his name a few months ago, was put on leave in April 2025 while the school board launched a third-party investigation.

The inquiry found that Toulios tried to hide his spending by directing an employee to create false invoices. After an investigation began, he told the employee in a text, "I can't lie anymore."

In summer 2024, allegations of Toulios' spending surfaced in the community. However, the school board, behind closed doors, initially accepted Toulios' explanations that everything was above board.

According to the investigation report, Toulios used the Epoch app to spend thousands on online adult content, though such apps hide the nature of the spending.

Toulios told the board that the expenditure was for a conservative publication called the Epoch Times. He said he had a personal subscription and mistakenly used his school credit card.

The report included text messages from Toulios and his wife that indicated he had asked the school's bookkeeper and accountant, Jacqueline Williams, to create false Epoch Times invoices. Those invoices were produced in response to a resident's public records request.

The report alleged Joe Rojek, assistant superintendent of finance, "rubber-stamped" Toulios' spending. Rojek, who left the school last month, weakened controls after he was hired in 2022, the report said.

Since Toulios left, Patch has reported on allegations that Toulios bypassed the school board to grant a nearly $30,000 perk to Rojek and make a school board member's wife a 12-month employee, rather than 10 months.

Late last year, Patch confirmed state police had launched an investigation into Toulios' spending.