Post by pavel on Jan 8, 2016 23:32:32 GMT -6
LSU professor arrested, accused of 98 counts of fraud, misappropriation of funds
An LSU professor accused of forging multiple students’ signatures to collect reimbursement from fake travel vouchers and accused of other instances of fraud, valued altogether at $16,478, was arrested Friday on a total of 98 counts of fraud and misappropriation of funds.
Todd Finley Shupe, 45, of Baton Rouge, who teaches graduate-level courses on treated wood recycling and advanced wood science, works in the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center at the LSU AgCenter, where he directs the LSU Wood Durability Lab.
LSU received a complaint regarding Shupe on Oct. 21. A lengthy investigation revealed Shupe had been reimbursing himself for more than $2,500 worth of travel expenses that did not exist, forging a student’s signature to make it appear the expenses were reimbursement for the LSU student’s driving, the LSU police report says.
LSU police discovered Shupe collected another $7,889 by forging a second student’s signature on 22 travel vouchers and forged the signature of a post-doctoral researcher from China on two occasions to reimburse himself on two false vouchers, valued at $492. He did a similar forgery of a former LSU research associate in December and reimbursed himself for more than $750, the report says.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/police/14517300-123/lsu-professor-arrested-accused-of-fraud
An LSU professor accused of forging multiple students’ signatures to collect reimbursement from fake travel vouchers and accused of other instances of fraud, valued altogether at $16,478, was arrested Friday on a total of 98 counts of fraud and misappropriation of funds.
Todd Finley Shupe, 45, of Baton Rouge, who teaches graduate-level courses on treated wood recycling and advanced wood science, works in the Louisiana Forest Products Development Center at the LSU AgCenter, where he directs the LSU Wood Durability Lab.
LSU received a complaint regarding Shupe on Oct. 21. A lengthy investigation revealed Shupe had been reimbursing himself for more than $2,500 worth of travel expenses that did not exist, forging a student’s signature to make it appear the expenses were reimbursement for the LSU student’s driving, the LSU police report says.
LSU police discovered Shupe collected another $7,889 by forging a second student’s signature on 22 travel vouchers and forged the signature of a post-doctoral researcher from China on two occasions to reimburse himself on two false vouchers, valued at $492. He did a similar forgery of a former LSU research associate in December and reimbursed himself for more than $750, the report says.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/police/14517300-123/lsu-professor-arrested-accused-of-fraud