{"id":28785,"date":"2023-01-10T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T01:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28785"},"modified":"2023-01-10T20:56:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T01:56:22","slug":"former-official-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-money-from-southeastern-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/01\/10\/former-official-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-money-from-southeastern-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Official Pleads Guilty To Stealing Money from Southeastern University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FBI said Brian Carroll created a fake corporation to do work for Southeastern University in Lakeland at inflated fees.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"703\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Brian-Carroll.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28786\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former executive vice president of Southeastern University in Lakeland has pleaded guilty to defrauding the University of Money, announced United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Carroll, 46, of Tennessee, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing date has not been set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the chief operating officer of the university, Carroll was responsible for financial operations and legal affairs. In 2016, when the university&#8217;s board of directors wanted to rebrand its image, Carroll created a New Mexico corporation with a bank account and email address, and approved a contract for the corporation to carry out the rebranding project, said the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to court records, over six months, Carroll&#8217;s corporation received $180,000 from the university although the corporation actually did none of the work. Instead, Carroll hired a New York-based company to perform the work for $30,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The university&#8217;s board of directors discovered the subterfuge and fired Carroll in early 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI said Brian Carroll created a fake corporation to do work for Southeastern University in Lakeland at inflated fees. The former executive vice president of Southeastern University in Lakeland&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[33],"tags":[4238],"class_list":["post-28785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seu-news","tag-former-official-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-money-from-southeastern-university"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}