The American University of Yale was the victim of a scam carried out for several years by one of its employees for a total damage estimated at 40 million dollars (approximately 36.2 million euros).
Her scheme was simple: she had the medical school buy electronic equipment before reselling it and reaping the profits, reports the American media NBC News quoted by
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Hired in 2008, Jamie Petrone became, after a few years, director of finance and administration of the department of emergency medicine.
This position consisted in particular of authorizing and making purchases without exceeding the ceiling of 10,000 dollars.
It was in 2013 that the forties had the idea of ordering large quantities of electronic equipment.
Ex-employee faces 20 years in prison
Then, she sent this material to a company, located in another American state, which took care of the resale.
Finally, she received a sum of money from the sale via a company she had set up.
Thanks to this scam, Jamie Petrone was able to afford several luxury cars as well as three properties, which were seized by American justice.
The defendant faces a sentence of twenty years in prison.
She pleaded guilty and the verdict will be delivered on June 29, 2022. For its part, Yale University assured that it had worked to close the loopholes that allowed this vast scam.
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