OSU Employee Arrested For Buying Sex Toys On School Credit Card

[Conan71]

You can't make up stuff like this.  Apparently the OSU chemistry department has no use for sex toys.  Imagine that.

STILLWATER — An Oct. 17 preliminary hearing has been set for a former Oklahoma State University employee charged with embezzling more than $80,000 from the school. She is accused of spending it on sex toys and other personal items.

Preliminary hearing set for former OSU employee charged with embezzlement

Cynthia Shirleen Low, 45, was in Payne County District Court on Monday. She pleaded not guilty to felony embezzlement charges on March 10, a day after she was arrested.

Prosecutors allege that from July 2008 to February 2010, Low purchased sex toys, clothes, electronics, jewelry and other personal items "that would not be used by the OSU Chemistry Department," court records show.


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[jacobi]

I heard that most of it was spent on thongs.  This was big news on campus.

[sgrizzle]

I would volunteer for this jury just to watch them enter the exhibits into record.

[Conan71]

I heard that most of it was spent on thongs.  This was big news on campus.

Did you see her picture?

Eeeewwww....

[zstyles]

Another reason that credit reports should be run on employees of public institutions before handing them an open line of credit...150k in debt?.

[AquaMan]

Another reason that credit reports should be run on employees of public institutions before handing them an open line of credit...150k in debt?.

That is unreasonable. You pretty much sentence a third of the available employees to unemployability. 

The problem is the open line of credit. Very rare that there are not plenty of controls to keep this sort of thing from happening. The administration bares a lot of responsibility for this. P-cards are usually limited in $ amount and purchases over the maximum have to be authorized in advance with pro-forma invoices.

[sgrizzle]

Another reason that credit reports should be run on employees of public institutions before handing them an open line of credit...150k in debt?.

I too, disagree with this. Ever bought a house and a car? Now you're 150k in debt.

She was also an employee before the bankruptcy.

[Ed W]

There's a tendency to sensationalize and over-stimulate people with a story like this.  It just doesn't have a good buzz or a happy ending. 

[Conan71]

There's a tendency to sensationalize and over-stimulate people with a story like this.  It just doesn't have a good buzz or a happy ending.  

Yeah, I was left a little flaccid when it was all said and done.

Edit: On a more serious track, that's $80,000 in unreported income she got.  Not only can she get sent away for this, she's now got a tax liability of $20 to $30K or so.  Oooops.

[Ed W]

Yeah, I was left a little flaccid when it was all said and done.

Edit: On a more serious track, that's $80,000 in unreported income she got.  Not only can she get sent away for this, she's now got a tax liability of $20 to $30K or so.  Oooops.

But by reporting stolen money as income she'd incriminate herself.  If she doesn't report it, she's likewise subject to charges.  It's a lose-lose proposition.

[nathanm]

The problem is the open line of credit. Very rare that there are not plenty of controls to keep this sort of thing from happening. The administration bares a lot of responsibility for this. P-cards are usually limited in $ amount and purchases over the maximum have to be authorized in advance with pro-forma invoices.

My SO's employers have handled it by using Diner's or Amex so there is 60 days instead of the usual 30 days to pay any balance on the corporate cards so that the employee can be the one liable for the charges until the expense report is submitted, but still have plenty of time to have the company pay for any reimbursable expenses charged, even if for some reason the expenses aren't submitted in the pay period they're incurred.

Seems like a fair system to me.

[Red Arrow]

But by reporting stolen money as income she'd incriminate herself.  If she doesn't report it, she's likewise subject to charges.  It's a lose-lose proposition.

Sort of like buying a tax stamp to sell pot.

[Ed W]

Sort of like buying a tax stamp to sell pot.

I was wondering what an Oklahoma marijuana tax stamp looks like.  As it turns out, they're really boring:




The state would probably sell more of them if they were cool looking....and if the back tasted like potato chips.

[Conan71]

I was wondering what an Oklahoma marijuana tax stamp looks like.  As it turns out, they're really boring:




The state would probably sell more of them if they were cool looking....and if the back tasted like potato chips.

But what if I have three grams...uh, I mean, uh, oh smile, delete if I could remember what that key looked like....