NYU administrator sentenced in invoice scheme

The New York Post reports:

The former administrator for NYU's chemistry department was cuffed and carted off to serve at least a year in prison this morning for a wacky, $409,000 phony invoice scheme.

Unnoticed for five years, John Runowicz, 47, went through the trash of Warehouse Wines, on Broadway a block from his office, fished out discarded cash register receipts, and submitted them as cash expenses for running the chemistry department.

Amazingly, the bursar's office merely checked the math, never noticing that the more than 10,000 little white scraps of register receipts read "Warehouse Wines" at the top, prosecutors said.

Great moments in public management!