[HN Gopher] Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 ye...
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       Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison
       for $5M fraud
        
       Author : donsupreme
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-05-17 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | blackhawkC17 wrote:
       | I remember a similar case when a Lithuanian dude sent a barrage
       | of fake invoices (for purported hardware purchases) to Google and
       | Facebook. He made off with $123 million before he got caught [1].
       | 
       | A Yale University employee also stole $40 million by ordering
       | computers for supposed research and reselling them through a
       | third party [2].
       | 
       | An Amazon manager similarly stole $10 million with fake invoices
       | [3].
       | 
       | It seems this kind of fraud is inevitable once an organization
       | scales beyond a certain level.
       | 
       | Harvard
       | 
       | 1-https://www.zdnet.com/article/lithuanian-man-pleads-guilty-t...
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       | 2 - https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089525660/a-former-yale-
       | empl...
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       | 3 -
       | https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/07/06/amazon_manager_fr...
        
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