<p>Jurors in the theft and corruption trial of two Atlanta businessmen charged alongside former state schools Superintendent Linda Schrenko finished deliberating Friday without reaching verdicts.</p><p>U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper dismissed jurors in the trial of Stephan Botes and Peter Steyn at about 5 p.m. on Friday. They are scheduled to resume deliberations Monday morning.</p><p>Schrenko pleaded guilty last week and testified against Botes and Steyn during the trial.</p><p>The jurors, who began deliberations Thursday, must decide if Botes and Steyn helped Schrenko steal more than $600,000 in federal education money aimed at honors students and deaf school children.</p><p>Prosecutors charge that about half the money went to Schrenko's failed gubernatorial campaign in 2002 and another $9,300 went toward a facelift after her defeat. Prosecutor Russell Vineyard said Botes and Steyn used the rest to rebuild their computer consulting business.</p><p>Earlier Friday afternoon, the jurors asked U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper to see the transcript of a recording of a phone call made in October 2004 by Johnny Turner, a former Botes employee who agreed to cooperate with the FBI in the case.</p><p>Schrenko, 56, struck a plea bargain in the middle of her trial in exchange for testifying against her co-defendants. She was sentenced to eight years in prison last week.</p><p>She became school superintendent in 1994, making history as the first woman elected to a statewide, nonjudicial post in Georgia and one of the highest-ranking Republicans in a state that had been dominated by Democrats since Reconstruction.</p><p>She was re-elected in 1998, but decided against seeking a third term to instead run for governor.</p>
