DOE Consultant Wife Plans Reality Show Career

Want to know where some of the money DOE tech consultant Willard Lanham stole from the DOE ended up?

It ended up paying for the picture of his estranged wife - who blogs about sex and the pursuit of younger sugar daddies with lots of money to take of older women - at a site called cougarlife.com.

Here's the Daily News on the "cougar" angle to the DOE story:

Laura Lanham - the self-styled "cougar" still sharing a Long Island home with her estranged husband - believes she could become America's next big reality star.

"My life is already a reality show," she told the Daily News in her first interview since her spouse was charged with stealing $3.6 million in city school funds.

"You can't make this s--- up," the brunette mother of three said Friday at a Panera Bread on Long Island. "My reality is surreal. It's crazy."

Lanham, 42, was living in suburban obscurity until husband Willard surrendered Thursday in Manhattan Federal Court, charged with pocketing money designed to provide New York students with Internet access.

Suddenly, her writings and risque photos from the web site cougarlife.com are big news - as was her nasty three-year divorce struggle.

Financial problems forced her to stay in the same house with her husband despite their crumbling marriage, along Laura Lane - a street he built and named after her. The strange arrangement seems to work.

"It's a big house," she explained. "We have separate rooms ... I'm happy. I love my life."

In addition to her blog, Lanham once sent nude photos to Playboy and confessed that she's an exhibitionist.

"Sex sells, period," she said.

It sure does - just ask Mayor Bloomberg's pal, Rupert Murdoch, who has made an entire publishing career out of selling it - but let's be honest here, this woman wouldn't have had the capital to fund her "cougar" lifestyle if not for the DOE largesse her estranged husband lived off of for years courtesy of the Mayor of Money and Chancellor Klein.

Hell, this guy stole enough money to build his own real estate sub-development and name a street after his (now estranged) wife.

That's some largesse, wouldn't you say?

I would, and I think it IS the stuff of reality TV.

Perhaps we can see how other DOE tech consultants live and work, stealing money from the good people of New York while the Mayor of Money lays off hard working teachers and increases class sizes.

Oh, and the "technology" that Lanham put into the schools (dubbed "Project Connect" by the DOE)

It doesn't work.

That's why they're spending $550 million in the next fiscal year to upgrade the technology.

That too ought to be the subject of a TV show.

Call it Mayor Mike's Failed Mayoral Control of the NYC School System.

Or better yet, Bloomberg Sucks.