University of California San Francisco. (In The News).Here's another item for the "crime on campus" file. As head cashier for the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Marie Taliaferro, 57, a 17-year employee, pulled off a feat extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra : She managed to embezzle embezzle To take illegally something of value being held in custody for someone else. $4.5 million in cash from the school. "I've seen funds electronically transferred or checks forged. But the sheer bulk of cash that she walked off with would have been a stack of bills close to a foot-tall every day," John Carbone Jr., assistant district attorney, told the press. Taliaferro was fired from her $55,800-a-year job in August 1999 after officials suspected her of stealing. The cashier used some of the money to fund a spiritual magazine published by Solimar Inc., a company founded by her daughter Christina, and to open an angel-themed art gallery in Lafayette. She'll be sentenced in May ... |
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