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☆ A former Facebook and Nike DEI manager got 5 years in prison for stealing $5 million to fund her luxury lifestyle
  + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
A former Facebook and Nike diversity manager was sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Barbara Furlow-Smiles admitted to stealing over $5 million from the companies. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $5 million to fund her luxury lifestyle.
Persons: Barbara Furlow, Smiles, —, Ryan K, Buchanan Organizations: Facebook, Nike, Attorneys, Service, US, Office, Northern, Northern District of, Business Locations: Northern District, Northern District of Georgia
☆ Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5 million fraud
  + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $5 million from those companies that had been earmarked for DEI initiatives, federal prosecutors said. Georgia resident Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the case in December, stole more than $4.9 million from Facebook "utilizing a scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fake invoices, and cash kickbacks," Atlanta U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in a statement. "After being terminated from Facebook, she brazenly continued the fraud as a DEI leader at Nike, where she stole another six-figure sum from their diversity program," Buchanan said. Furlow-Smiles, 38, used the money she stole "to fund a luxury lifestyle in California, Georgia and Oregon," according to Buchanan's office, which had asked a judge to sentence her to 6½ years. She was a lead strategist and global head of employee resource groups and diversity engagement at Facebook, the subsidiary of Meta.
Persons: Barbara Furlow, Ryan Buchanan, brazenly, Buchanan Organizations: Facebook, Nike, Atlanta U.S, Meta, Prosecutors, PayPal Locations: Georgia, California , Georgia, Oregon
☆ Former Facebook diversity strategist pleads guilty to stealing more than $4 million from company
  + stars: | 2023-12-13 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Barbara Furlow-Smiles attends the 2020 Sisters' Awards at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on March 8, 2020. A former global diversity strategist at Facebook pled guilty to wire fraud after stealing more than $4 million from the social media giant "to fund a lavish lifestyle" in California and Georgia, federal prosecutors said. In some instances, Furlow-Smiles had Facebook pay people who did not give her kickbacks, in one case directing $10,000 to an artist for specialty portraits, and more than $18,000 to a preschool for tuition, prosecutors said. As part of the scheme, Furlow-Smiles linked PayPal, Venmo and Cash App accounts to her Facebook credit cards and used those accounts to pay friends, relatives and other associates for goods and services purportedly provided to Facebook. Furlow-Smiles, who was not Facebook's top DEI executive, pled guilty in Atlanta federal court on Monday.
Persons: Barbara Furlow, Smiles, Furlow, Ryan Buchanan, Meta, Lance Clarke Organizations: Attorney's, Facebook Diversity, Equity, Facebook, PayPal, . U.S, Meta, CNBC, CNBC PRO Locations: Los Angeles, Atlanta, California, Georgia, .
☆ Seven years after Ferguson investigation, Missouri police still resist reforms
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Hassan Kanu | Thomson Reuters | Hassan Kanu Writes About Access To Justice | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
(Reuters) - The shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer prompted the U.S. Justice Department's most significant investigation of policing practices since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. The DOJ also pointed out that “police departments in surrounding municipalities and the County” have practices similar to Ferguson, although that issue was “beyond the scope” of the investigation. In fact, federal officials even considered opening another investigation of the St. Louis police department for similar problems, Reuters reported in October 2020. Ferguson officials expressed concerns that the reforms required to stop exploitative policing in their city would “cripple city finances,” Reuters reported in March 2016. (A measure to institute a modest property tax increase to fund the reforms didn't get the required two-thirds majority vote.)
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