NEW HAVEN, CT —A 41-year-old Naugatuck girl was charged by federal prison grievance with fraud and cash laundering offenses associated to her alleged theft of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in laptop {hardware} from the Yale University School of Medicine the place she was employed, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI introduced Friday.Jamie Petrone-Codrington surrendered to legislation enforcement Friday, appeared earlier than U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert M. Spector in New Haven and was launched on a $1 million bond, in accordance with Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Leonard Boyle and Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI. As alleged within the grievance, the DOJ mentioned, starting in round 2008, Petrone-Codrington was employed by the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, and most lately served because the Director of Finance and Administration for the Department of Emergency Medicine. As a part of her job obligations, Petrone-Codrington had authority to make and authorize sure purchases for departmental wants so long as the acquisition quantity stayed under $10,000, prosecutors mentioned. Beginning not less than as early as 2013, Petrone-Codrington engaged in a scheme the place she ordered, or “precipitated others working for her,” to order hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of laptop {hardware} from Yale distributors utilizing Yale Med funds and organized to ship the stolen {hardware} to an out-of-state enterprise in trade for cash, the DOJ mentioned. It’s additionally alleged that Petrone-Codrington falsely represented on Yale inside varieties and in digital communications that the {hardware} was for specified Yale Med wants, resembling specific medical research, and she or he broke up the fraudulent purchases into orders under the $10,000 threshold that will require further approval, the Acting U.S. Attorney for CT mentioned, including that the out-of-state enterprise, which resold the pc {hardware} to prospects, paid Petrone-Codrington by wiring funds into an account of an organization during which she is a principal.The prison grievance expenses Petrone-Codrington with mail fraud, which carries a most of 20 years; wire fraud, which carries a most of 20 years; and cash laundering, which carries a most of 10 12 months in jail. Boyle “confused {that a} grievance is simply a cost and isn’t proof of guilt.”This case is being investigated by the FBI and the Yale Police Department.
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Yale Med School Employee Stole Millions In Computer Hardware: DOJ
