{"id":2246896,"date":"2024-05-17T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/excessive-greed-former-facebook-dei-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-5-million\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:35:57","slug":"excessive-greed-former-facebook-dei-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/excessive-greed-former-facebook-dei-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Facebook Diversity Manager Jailed for Stealing $5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexcessive-greed-former-facebook-dei-manager-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-5-million%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2246896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a 38-year-old former DEI manager at \u2063Facebook and Nike, \u2062has \u2062been sentenced to\u2063 five\u200b years in prison for \u200cembezzling over $5 million. She orchestrated a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-sentenced-after-buying-homes-luxury-cars-with-24-million-in-fraudulently-obtained-covid-relief\/\" title=\"Man Sentenced After Buying Homes, Luxury Cars With  Million In Fraudulently Obtained COVID Relief\">fraudulent scheme<\/a> using fake vendors and forged\u2063 documents to \u2064steal $4.9 million from Facebook and\u200b $120,000 from Nike.\u200c Furlow-Smiles must pay restitution and serve five years \u2064in prison \u200bwith\u2064 three years of \u200csupervised release. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a \u206438-year-old former DEI manager at Facebook and\u2063 Nike, has been sentenced to five \u200byears in prison for embezzling over $5 million. \u2063She orchestrated\u200c a fraudulent \u200cscheme \u2064using fake vendors and forged documents to steal $4.9 million from Facebook and $120,000 from Nike. Furlow-Smiles must\u2063 pay\u200c restitution \u2063and \u2062serve five years in prison with\u200d three years of supervised release.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former DEI manager for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nike<\/a> was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing over 5 million dollars from those two companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndga\/pr\/former-diversity-program-manager-facebook-and-nike-sentenced-federal-prison-5-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted<\/a> of orchestrating a scheme where she used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-facebook-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-4m-from-the-company\/\" title=\"Ex-Facebook worker admits to stealing M\">fraudulent vendors<\/a>, fictitious paperwork, and cash kickbacks to steal $4.9 million from Facebook and over $120,000 from Nike. Furlow-Smiles was ordered by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Grimberg to pay restitution for the funds she stole and given five years in prison with three years of supervised release. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFurlow-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,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. \u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DOJ said that she used the stolen money to fund a \u201cluxury lifestyle\u201d in California, Georgia, and Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furlow-Smiles ran diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at Facebook from January 2017 until September 2021. Using her access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-contractors-charged-with-making-illegal-donations-to-pro-susan-collins-super-pac\/\" title=\"Government Contractors Charged With Making Illegal Donations To Pro-Susan Collins Super PAC\">company credit cards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-lance-gooden-republicans-urge-u-s-olympic-committee-to-block-athletes-from-using-digital-yuan\/\" title=\"Exclusive - Rep. Lance Gooden, Republicans Urge U.S. Olympic Committee to Block Athletes from Using Digital Yuan\">payment platforms<\/a>, she paid friends, relatives, and other associates for goods and services, according to the Justice Department. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DOJ said that Furlow-Smiles was aided in the scheme by nannies and babysitters, a hair stylist, and her university tutor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She later went to work for Nike from November 2021 to February 2023 after she was fired from Facebook. At Nike, Furlow-Smiles was the company\u2019s senior director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, where she was tasked with organizing DEI-related events. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714129450076000&#038;usg=AOvVaw11MUL_oXewNl-yGfGqnuu8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While at Nike, she linked her company card to her personal PayPal and Venmo accounts and made up fake expenses for a Juneteenth event to submit fraudulent payment claims. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAfter she was fired, she carelessly continued her fraudulent schemes at Nike, thinking she was untouchable. As a result, she not only threw away a lucrative career, but will serve time behind bars for her excessive greed,\u201d said FBI agent Keri Farley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sentencing comes as DEI programs have come under scrutiny at universities and corporations across the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, a former DEI manager at Facebook and Nike, received a five-year prison sentence for embezzling over $5 million. She was found guilty of running a fraudulent scheme that involved fake vendors, forged documents, and cash kickbacks, resulting in $4.9 million from Facebook and $120,000 from Nike being stolen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2246898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-17-May-2024-11-15-AM-8896-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-17-May-2024-11-15-AM-8896-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}