Former Page Unified School District Superintendent Greg Conway, 57, of Mesa, pleaded guilty Dec. 17 to theft and agreed to pay $85,000 in restitution, Attorney General Terry Goddard announced.  
Conway pleaded guilty to one count of theft, a Class 3 felony, and one count of attempted misuse of public money, a Class 5 felony, in Maricopa County Superior Court.
An investigation conducted by the Auditor General’s Office alleged that, between August 2003 and June 2005, while he served as Page superintendent, Conway violated Arizona’s conflict of interest laws, committed theft, misused public funds and altered governing board documents to cover up his wrongdoing. 
Conway admitted in court that he issued $17,216 in unauthorized payments to himself and $6,800 to the assistant superintendent. Conway issued one payment to himself and the payment to an assistant superintendent without authorization from the governing board. He issued a second payment to himself under an inter-governmental agreement with the Coconino County School Superintendent’s Office but without notifying the Page governing board.