FBI agents have descended upon properties linked to the superintendent of the nation’s second-largest school district.
Authorities conducted a raid on a $1.4 million home in San Pedro owned by Alberto Carvalho, the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), as well as a property in Miami, Florida, according to federal officials who spoke to Fox News Digital.
Additionally, employees at the district’s downtown headquarters were evacuated to allow agents to search Carvalho’s office on Wednesday, as reported by Fox 11.
The authorities have not revealed the exact reason for the raid, though there is speculation that it might be connected to the district’s associations with a defunct AI company.
Another search warrant was executed at a location in Southwest Ranches, Florida, linked to the now-defunct company AllHere.
This start-up had secured a $6 million agreement with the school district, as reported by the New York Times. The company’s founder was arrested for fraud in 2024, the same year the company declared bankruptcy.
Debra Kerr, a salesperson who formerly worked with AllHere, is listed as the owner of the Southwest Ranches home, according to public records cited by the Los Angeles Times.
Kerr was not identified as a target of the investigation by federal officials or confidential sources, according to the outlet.
Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), was allegedly the focus of a raid by FBI agents and officials from the Department of Justice
Officials executed search warrants at the home of Alberto Carvalho in San Pedro but did not specifically disclose the reason behind the sweep
Officials entered the $1.4 million home on Wednesday as part of a series of raids
Sources told the LA Times the raid focused on Carvalho, not the LAUSD. They also said it fell under ‘the broad category of financial issues’.
However, the FBI has not released any information, noting that the court has sealed the affidavits.
LAUSD said in a statement that it is cooperating with federal authorities and is aware of the situation involving Carvalho, but did not provide additional details.
The superintendent, who makes $440,000 annually, has been at the helm of the nation’s second-largest school district since 2022 overseeing the education of nearly 400,000 students.
The crackdown on Wednesday is just the latest controversy to surround Carvalho.
In 2008, while an official of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Carvalho was involved in a series of suggestive emails with Miami Herald reporter Tania deLuzuriaga while he was married.
The flirtatious message read as, ‘Will you be completely offended if I jump into your arms the next time I see you? Love, love, love you,’ the New York Post reports.
Carvalho denied having an affair after the suggestive exchanges emerged after he was named superintendent.
The crackdown on Wednesday is just the latest chapter in Carvalho’s history with federal agents. The superintendent condemned Homeland Security Investigations agents in 2025 which were allegedly checking on the welfare of undocumented students
The LAUSD said it is co-operating with the authorities amid the searches
Carvalho’s office on the 24th floor at LAUSD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles was also raided
In 2020, amid his 14-year tenure as superintendent at the same district, the Office of the Inspector General uncovered a $1.57 million donation to a nonprofit he chaired, according to the Post.
The Inspector’s office questioned the timing of the contribution and asked that the donation be returned.
Last week his school district was targeted by the Justice Department with a federal lawsuit claiming white students were being discriminated against by a desegregation program at LAUSD.
A spokesman for the school district told the New York Times it was unable to comment on pending litigation.
‘Los Angeles Unified remains firmly committed to ensuring all students have meaningful access to services and enriching educational opportunities,’ he added.
Carvalho also made an enemy of Homeland Security Investigations after turning away agents from two Los Angeles elementary schools last year, according to the New York Times.
Additionally, he went on the record in July 2025 to criticize Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents for allegedly urinating on the grounds of a Pico Rivera school.
The superintendent described the alleged incident as a ‘new level of despicable insult’.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the FBI, LAUSD, Alberto Carvalho and Debra Kerr for comment.
