Roslyn school district case
Roslyn School District Case
1) The primary individuals involved the Roslyn fraud were former assistant superintendent for business and finance Pamela Gluckin and Former superintendent Frank Tassone. Also the former accounting clerk Debra Rigano was charged with the fraud too.
2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager, Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk, Debra Rigano, who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their family members and friends charged $5.9 million for personal items and cash advances on 74 personal credit cards. Then Ms. Gluckin and Dr. Tassone used district checks to pay those bills. The audit found that Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin would obtain cash advances on their credit cards at A.T.M. 's. Ms. Gluckin, whose salary and benefits in her final year were $87,250, charged $559,176 in cash advances to the district over six years. Dr. Tassone, who received a salary of $230,000, charged $541,596 to the district in cash advances. Once the cash advances and the credit card charges - among them, for Tiffany and Tourneau jewelry, Coach leather accessories, carpet and furniture for him; and clothes from Nordstrom and Sears, electronic equipment, pet supplies and art and furniture for her - were executed, those amounts were submitted to the district, the audit said. To pay those bills, district checks were sent directly to the card issuers. The audit found that the district 's financial software could be easily manipulated and had fraud controls that had never been activated. Using a legitimate vendor account number, the name of the check 's recipient would be changed from a vendor of school supplies to the creditors. After the check was issued, the name of the payee would be changed back in the computer records to the legitimate vendor to conceal the fraudulent payment, according to the audit.
When a budget category came close to its limit, the audit
1) The primary individuals involved the Roslyn fraud were former assistant superintendent for business and finance Pamela Gluckin and Former superintendent Frank Tassone. Also the former accounting clerk Debra Rigano was charged with the fraud too.
2) Frank A. Tassone; the former business manager, Pamela Gluckin; and an accounting clerk, Debra Rigano, who is a niece of Ms. Gluckin embezzled money in a scheme in which Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin and nine of their family members and friends charged $5.9 million for personal items and cash advances on 74 personal credit cards. Then Ms. Gluckin and Dr. Tassone used district checks to pay those bills. The audit found that Dr. Tassone and Ms. Gluckin would obtain cash advances on their credit cards at A.T.M. 's. Ms. Gluckin, whose salary and benefits in her final year were $87,250, charged $559,176 in cash advances to the district over six years. Dr. Tassone, who received a salary of $230,000, charged $541,596 to the district in cash advances. Once the cash advances and the credit card charges - among them, for Tiffany and Tourneau jewelry, Coach leather accessories, carpet and furniture for him; and clothes from Nordstrom and Sears, electronic equipment, pet supplies and art and furniture for her - were executed, those amounts were submitted to the district, the audit said. To pay those bills, district checks were sent directly to the card issuers. The audit found that the district 's financial software could be easily manipulated and had fraud controls that had never been activated. Using a legitimate vendor account number, the name of the check 's recipient would be changed from a vendor of school supplies to the creditors. After the check was issued, the name of the payee would be changed back in the computer records to the legitimate vendor to conceal the fraudulent payment, according to the audit.
When a budget category came close to its limit, the audit