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NEW YORK TONER SCAMMER NOW HEADED TO JAIL
A former employee of Manhattan’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center was sentenced Monday to up to 7 ½ years in prison for stealing more than $1.5 million worth of printer toner to finance a life of luxury.
Marque Gumbs, 33 years old, also agreed to forfeit a number of the items he was found to have purchased through the scam, which he perpetrated over nearly three years. He pleaded guilty to grand larceny in July. As part of his plea agreement, prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to 2 ½ to 7 ½ years in state prison, instead of the 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison he faced if he was convicted at trial.
Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Laura Ward agreed to the length of the sentence Monday.
According to prosecutors, Mr. Gumbs was employed by Memorial Sloan-Kettering at its main outpatient campus on East 53rd Street as a receiving clerk who was responsible for ordering, receiving and stocking ink cartridges for the printers at the facility. He had password-protected access to a computer used to order the toner supplies from Office Depot.
Once the toner cartridges were ordered, Mr. Gumbs allegedly instructed drivers from Office Depot to call him and he would meet them in the street to accept the delivery before it reached the normal receiving area. None of the ink toner cartridges were compatible with any machines at the campus, prosecutors said.
Between September 2007 and August 2010, Mr. Gumbs ordered and diverted more than $1.5 million in toner, prosecutors said. The proceeds were used to finance purchases from designer stores, travel and stays at expensive hotels, and a 2011 BMW X6.
As part of his sentence, Mr. Gumbs must forfeit the BMW, two laptops, an expensive digital camera, an Apple iPod, two jewel-encrusted watches, four Louis Vuitton bags and two pieces of jewelry.
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