Facebook Diversity Manager pleads guilty to stealing 4 million from Facebook.
A former global diversity executive at Facebook has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $4 million from the company.
Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, served as Lead Strategist, Global Head of Employee Resource Groups and Diversity Engagement at Facebook from about January 2017 to September 2021.
During that time, lawyers from the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia said she cheated and defraud the company out of over $4 million.
She charged Facebook fraudulent invoices, then received kickbacks and used the money to live a luxury lifestyle in California and Georgia.
‘This defendant abused a position of a trust as a global diversity executive for Facebook to defraud the company of millions of dollars, ignoring the insidious consequences of undermining the importance of her DEI mission,’ said US Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan.
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