The FBI has not said what it is investigating. It has not confirmed if anything was seized during the mid-February raids on LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home, his office, and a third location in Miami. That silence is the central fact of this story.
Everything else — Carvalho’s resignation on June 21, his paid administrative leave, the board’s unanimous vote — flows from it. Carvalho resigned effective June 21.
Months earlier, in February, federal agents hit three sites. The agency has released no details on the probe’s focus. No charges have been filed against Carvalho.
The LAUSD Board of Education placed him on paid leave after the raids, a move it described as necessary for stability and continuity. The vote was unanimous.
The board issued a statement to NBC. It said it remains committed to providing every student a high-quality education, supporting its workforce, and maintaining community trust. The statement did not address the investigation directly.
It did not explain the board’s timeline — why it waited months between the raids and the leave, or between the leave and the resignation. The uncertainty the FBI’s silence created has not been resolved by the board’s actions. The resignation removes Carvalho from the payroll.
It does not end the investigation. It does not answer what the FBI was looking for.
There is a separate thread here, one the board did not mention in its statement. Carvalho had publicly supported a chatbot called “Ed” for LAUSD students. The chatbot was built by AllHere, a tech company that has since collapsed.
LAUSD had paid a significant amount of money in advance for the product. AllHere’s founder, Joanna Smith-Griffin, now faces federal charges — securities fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft — connected to the company’s activities.
The FBI has not said whether the raids on Carvalho are related to the AllHere contract. The agency has not said whether they are related to anything else. The board has not said whether it knows more than the public does.
Carvalho has not spoken publicly about the investigation since the raids. So the record stands as is. A superintendent resigned.
Federal agents executed warrants at three locations months earlier. The warrants remain unexplained.
The board voted unanimously to put him on leave, then accepted his resignation. The company that built a chatbot he promoted is now defunct, and its founder is charged with fraud. The district paid that company upfront.
How much money is “significant”? The report does not say.
What the FBI was after in Miami, in Carvalho’s home, in his office? The report does not say. The board’s statement about quality education and community trust is the kind of statement boards make when they cannot say anything else.
It is not an explanation. It is a placeholder. What happens next is unclear.
The investigation continues. The district needs a new superintendent.
The chatbot money is gone. The questions the FBI has not answered still hang over all of it.
