Ex-Facebook DEI Exec Charged with Stealing $4M from Social Media Giant in Elaborate Plot
Former Facebook executive Barbara Furlow-Smiles has pleaded guilty to taking her employer to the cleaners to the tune of $4 million.
The former global diversity executive for Facebook used the cash “to live a luxury lifestyle in California and Georgia,” according to a Department of Justice news release.
“This defendant abused a position of a trust as a global diversity executive for Facebook to defraud the company of millions of dollars, ignoring the insidious consequences of undermining the importance of her DEI mission,” U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said.
“Motivated by greed, she used her time to orchestrate an elaborate criminal scheme in which fraudulent vendors paid her kickbacks in cash. She even involved relatives,
