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Ex-Facebook manager pleads guilty to bilking $4m in kickback

  • By Tunde
  • December 14, 2023
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  • 11 months ago

Former Facebook Executive, Barbara-Furlow

Furlow-Smiles, who served as Lead Strategist and Global Head of Employee Resource groups and Diversity Engagement at Facebook, used the stolen funds to live an extravagant lifestyle.

Her extravagant lifestyle spanned from California to Georgia, prosecutors said.

From approximately January 2017 to September 2021, Furlow-Smiles led Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programmes at Facebook.

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And she was responsible for developing and executing DEI initiatives, operations and engagement programmes,” according to the DOJ.

The feds said Furlow-Smiles had access to company credit cards. She also could approve invoices as part of her role at the company.

She “caused Facebook to pay numerous individuals including her friends and relatives for goods and services never provided to the company”.

Those individuals would later funnel kickbacks to Furlow-Smiles. (NYT)

 

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