Georgia Tech Administrator Stole $350,000
January 22, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
An administrator at Georgia Tech stole as much as $350,000 from the university over a six-year period, according to documents released by the University System of Georgia and obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The chancellor of the university system recently ordered an investigation into the $350-million-per-year purchasing-card program, which allows university employees to pay for work-related items, after a state audit report said the program lacked basic oversight and was often abused.
The newspaper reports that the newly released documents discuss 18 cases of fraud involving the cards, including the unnamed administrator who “submitted fraudulent invoices to conceal personal purchases” to steal between $320,000 and $350,000. The employee worked in the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience, according to a university-system spokesman.
Twelve university employees who were accused of fraud in the newly released documents have resigned, been fired, or retired, the newspaper reports.
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