Annenberg school ripped off

A senior business officer at the USC Annenberg School for Communication misappropriated at least $100,000 before leaving the university last year, the campus Daily Trojan reports. Lisa Colleen Grabow used USC funds to remodel her home, hire a babysitter and pay for personal moving expenses, among other unauthorized charges, according to a civil lawsuit filed by the university. Grabow also put her husband on the payroll at the USC Law Library and forged a dean's signature on check requests to pay for fictitious lecturers, the suit alleges.

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"Lisa did have time in the spring to squeeze in a wonderful trip to Paris."--page 4 of this USC 1998 pdf

http://lawweb.usc.edu/library/services/newsletters/fall98.pdf

Posted by: joseph at December 15, 2003 10:22 AM

I'm a second year grad student at Annenberg, and I broke this story in the DT, after investigating a nearly two-year old rumor that was still being repeated around the school.

I think it's interesting to see how news make the rounds ... you guys plugged my story on Monday, the Times ran a brief on Tuesday ... thanks for noticing!

Melissa

Posted by: Melissa Milios at December 16, 2003 04:02 PM
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