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NEW YORK TONER THIEF PLEADS GUILTY OF GRAND LARCENY
A former employee of Manhattan’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $1.5 million from the hospital in the form of printer toner.Marque Gumbs, 33 years old, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and prosecutors are expected to recommend a far more lenient prison term than the up to 25 years he faced if convicted at trial.He will be sentenced next month in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The Wall Street Journal first detailed the allegations against Mr. Gumbs in December.
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. In that role, 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 toner, prosecutors said. The proceeds were used to finance purchases from designer stores, travel and stays at expensive hotels and a 2011 BMW X6. He rented a $2,250 a month apartment at the Trump Plaza in New Rochelle.
His actual income from the hospital was $37,800 a year. A Sloan-Kettering spokeswoman said Mr. Gumbs had been employed there since 1999, but was fired after his arrest.Mr. Gumbs will be sentenced on Aug. 8, when the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is expected to recommend 2½ to 7½ years in prison, in addition to the forfeiture of gains from the scheme. Mr. Gumbs would have faced between 8 1/3 and 25 years in prison if he was convicted at trial.His attorney declined to comment.
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