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Yale Medical School employee charged with stealing $31 million in computer equipment for resale over 13 years
NY Daily News ^ | 07 September 2021 | THERESA BRAINE

Posted on 09/07/2021 8:15:47 PM PDT by blueplum

It was nice work if you could get it. And one woman allegedly got it.

A former Yale University Medical School employee has been charged with fraud and money laundering for allegedly stealing $31 million worth of computer equipment over more than a decade, then reselling it....

...While acquisition was part of her job, reselling the equipment was not. Pedrone-Codrington in 2013 “engaged in a scheme whereby she ordered, or caused others working for her, to order millions of dollars of computer hardware from Yale vendors using Yale Med funds and arranged to ship the stolen hardware to an out-of-state business...

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: extracurriculars; highereducation; yale
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

High Yellow.

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Octoroon.


21 posted on 09/07/2021 9:25:05 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: BenLurkin

What does high yellow mean? Like a coward?

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Octoroon................. 1/8 negro.


22 posted on 09/07/2021 9:27:45 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: Organic Panic
The big guy always gets his cut, or else...

LOL. I forgot about him.

23 posted on 09/07/2021 9:30:31 PM PDT by Mark17 (USAF, Retired. Father of USAF officer and trained pilot, who loves flying US Air Force aircraft. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

A lot of that money went into creating that alien look.


24 posted on 09/07/2021 9:46:48 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Larry Lucido

Reminds me of the MASH episode where Radar was mailing home a Jeep, one piece at a time.


25 posted on 09/07/2021 9:54:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blueplum

She got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost her a dime...

ISP Earthlink co-founder Reed Slatkin ran a ponzi scheme for 15 years.

While I worked at earthlink someone in the Network dept was stealing ram memory from the hundreds of call center computers. The pc’s were slow anyhow as they hardly had enough memory to begin with. Back then ram memory was expensive. We were using win98 then NT4 then 2000.
All the blue screening errors must have given someone a clue.

At Fry’s Electronics some employee would buy computer parts at inflated prices and split the over charge with others.


26 posted on 09/07/2021 9:58:58 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Not_Who_U_Think
You gotta wonder how $3 million worth of computer hardware was never missed, every year for a decade.

$3m is chump change for this chick. It was $31m.

27 posted on 09/07/2021 10:07:39 PM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: PGR88

There was a naval element in Arlington, VA that had some guy who’d done a similar thing. I think he’d gotten away with it for more than five years....a million or two in gains.

They only found out when a rare audit occurred and they surveyed the list of all equipment bought over the past twelve month (a bunch simply wasn’t there).


28 posted on 09/08/2021 12:31:44 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: PGR88
I wonder how her scheme was finally discovered.

Here are some possibilities:

1. A long overdue audit of her office.

2. She dinged the wrong account and the account owner noticed.

3. An employee in her office or the shipping dept finally spoke up.

29 posted on 09/08/2021 2:17:05 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: minnesota_bound

In the early 90s, I worked for a guy who had a computer store. Another guy showed up every couple weeks to sell (to the store) tubes of 1MB memory modules for $50 each, so roughly 8 modules for $50 when, at the time, a single 1MB module sold for $50.

I always figured that they were stolen from some Federal government office. This was in the suburbs of DC.


30 posted on 09/08/2021 3:03:59 AM PDT by brianl703
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To: blueplum
Sounds like something that had happened with Office Max when I worked for them in the 1990s. The district manager had a problem with a store, so they asked me and the assistant manager to be the team at the problem store. After 2 weeks, we found the problem: The Receiving Manager had a side business, he sold computers online. He took half of the computer ordered and never inventoried them.

Nice business, all profit... 🤓

31 posted on 09/08/2021 4:06:27 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/5/21 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: blueplum
13 years is a long time to keep an illegal scheme running without cover from above.

Even a regular audit would show some illegal acts {unless there was cover from upper management}.

32 posted on 09/08/2021 5:10:17 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: shotgun

Fake cattle? What did they sell instead of Beef Cattle? Did they sell vegetables disguised as BEEF CATTLE? 🤓


33 posted on 09/08/2021 8:19:34 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/521 at the NCGOP convention)
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To: dfwgator

“Reminds me of the MASH episode where Radar was mailing home a Jeep, one piece at a time.”

Didn’t Klinger set out to EAT a jeep at one point, too?


34 posted on 09/08/2021 8:25:32 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Deplorable American1776

The Feds called it “ghost cattle”. They only existed on paper. Basically he was getting paid by Tyson to deliver hundreds of thousands of head of butcher ready cattle, so they paid him for feed, vet care, transportation, and everything under the sun to raise them and ship them to the processing plant.

I call him the Bernie Madoff of the beef industry.

He would fudge the shipping manifest to include a number of ghost cattle.

He used the proceeds to cover of his losses in the commodity markets, which was around $240 million, and he must have been pretty bad at understanding short and long term cattle futures, unlike Hillary.

He pled guilty and is expected to receive a 20 year sentence from the Feds. His dad died in a head on collision with one of their own semi-trucks about a month before the Feds came knocking and the story went public. Most people figure he committed suicide.


35 posted on 09/08/2021 10:29:31 AM PDT by shotgun
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