Facebook Diversity Hire Stole $5 million
Diversity's working out GREAT for corporate America
By the way, The New York Times, despite its keen interest in “diversity,” has not mentioned this case.
ATLANTA - Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity program manager at Facebook and Nike, has been sentenced for stealing more than $5 million based on an elaborate scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fictitious paperwork, and cash kickbacks.
“Furlow-Smiles shamelessly violated her position of trust as a DEI executive at Facebook to steal millions from the company utilizing a scheme involving fraudulent vendors, fake invoices, and cash kickbacks,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “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. Her prison sentence reflects the consequences of her decision to orchestrate an intricate scheme to defraud two of her employers for personal profit.”
— DOJ Press Release
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May 13, 2024
Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, a former leader of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs for Facebook and Nike, was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty in December to stealing more than $5 million from her ex-employers.
Furlow-Smiles sat stoically as U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg handed down the sentence. He also ordered her to pay back everything she stole over the six years she ran her schemes, down to the cent — $5,102,838.08.
Before sentencing, Furlow-Smiles addressed the court through tears: “Today, I stand here for the fight of my life.”
Continued here.
“ Fight of my life….?”
That applies to kids with cancer , soldiers under fire , not to embezzlers.
One naturally wonders how many times this sort of thing will need to happen, whether it's brazen fraudsters, incompetent firemen and police officers, unskilled airline pilots, quack doctors or incapable airplane builders.
How many innocent people will be forced to needlessly die on the altar of liberalism?
How many excellent, brilliant people will have their careers and lives destroyed because their skin wasn't the 'right' color?
How many once-respected academic institutions will have their reputations wrecked...perhaps forever, because they embraced this cancerous, Maoist, DIE religion?
Respect is more valuable than gold, and it can't be bought. Industries and institutions that have aligned themselves with this madness may regret it one day but then it will be far too late.
And thoughtful people have been telling them what the consequences would be all along. Eventually, threatening to call someone a racist for daring to speak the obvious truth will cease to cause folks to retreat in a fearful silence, but it will be past time to fix things.
Ask any older Chinese person about Mao's Cultural Revolution. Ask them what the Red Guard did to China. There are many, many similarities to the DIE madness, and the results will be the same if we don't stop it, and soon.