Georgia Tech Employee Pleads Guilty in P-Card Scheme
Donna Rene Gamble was an employee of the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a Tech employee, Gamble had access to one or more Procurement Cards, or "P-Cards," which employees could use for official business purchases, but not personal purchases. However, over the course of five years, Gamble purchased more than 3,800 personal items with her P-Cards, totalling more than $316,000. Gamble then concealed her purchases by creating false receipts and making false entries in accounting records. The money spent by Gamble was grant money to Georgia Tech by the National Science Foundation.
Gamble plead guilty on May 13 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to 22 counts of mail fraud and theft from and organization receiving federal funds. She will be sentenced in July.
