UGA Greek Life Embezzelment
What a horrific situation for Univ Georgia's Greek Life. An administrator killed herself on campus after it was discovered that she had embezzled over $1 mil from the university's Greek Life accounts over the course of a decade.
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The more I read, the wilder the story got. My goodness! I can't even buy two cups of coffee with my company card without a thorough explanation and description of charges attached.
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I was wondering if this story would get shared here. I worked in the GLO for two years during that time frame. While I am shocked that Lasina would do this, the oversight piece is not surprising. I don't have vivid memories of lack of oversight or anything on Claudia's part, but can totally see how Lasina was given complete control over those accounts.
Such a sad ending. Those who I've talked to and knew the people involved are all shocked. |
This is shocking.
And from so many different perspectives. Why did Ms. Shamp never review bank accounts? Did the Panhellenic or IFC treasurers evern able to look at bank statements? If there were supposed to be UGA rules regarding the money, why were they ignored? Why was UGA so reluctant to send out any news of this? Well, I can understand why, but apparently the Red & Black had to pull teeth to get any info. Good for them. During my years as a reporter, I always wondered how some reporters could ferret out financial shenanigans. Heck, one of the reasons I became a reporter was because I was no good any any kind of math, much less reading financial statements. |
At least she stole the least money from the sick children’s fund? Sorry, that’s all I got.
Unless you are someone with a deep-seeded grudge running a long con, I don’t know how people do something like this and wake up and go through life every day. |
I cannot fathom this lack of oversight across the board. And then to see that people were also misusing p-cards and other forms of payment? Where is the training? Where is accounts payable? Where are the auditors? I had jobs on campus’s where I couldn’t order an extra pizza for students without massive scrutiny. This is bananas!
This is an awful ending. And now the policies moving forward will probably be overkill for all those handling budgets. |
What in the actual F?! Sticky notes? Blank checks? No budget? Zero oversight? Are you kidding me?
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I'm always interested (and amazed) when I read stories about embezzlement cases because it's always the same story over and over again: A trusted employee and absolutely no oversight by anyone in the organization. This happens all the time, whether it's a business, church, non-profit, whatever, it's always the same scenario.
What I want to know is why the so-called Director was allowed to "retire" and the so-called Assistant Director was allowed to "resign"? Why weren't they both fired? |
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I'm not that surprised. At our college, most administrators don't do any actual oversight work (or any work, really) either. Our president's office made a massive, obvious, continuing clerical error that nobody involved caught - not the president, not our financial administrator, not our board, nobody - which left us owing the state millions.
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If someone came here to pitch a movie concept that one of the top Greek panhellenics in the country where every recruitment detail is carefully watched, timed, and noted could have someone embezzling this much money for this long, we'd have laughed her out of here.
And yet here we are. |
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Having known Claudia from years back, I'm totally shocked. She was such a control freak back then. Very sad all around.
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