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It's All a Boondoggle: Former Meta DEI Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud

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There has been a viral video circulating around Twitter/X today of a work teleconference meeting where a manager singles out one of her interns to justify booking first-class tickets to St. Lucia for an alleged 'scouting trip' for her job. 

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This video is hilarious (just look at the cringy, uncomfortable facial expressions on all of the co-workers on the call, for example), but we mention it here for an important reason. Some people just feel so superior and privileged ('How else would you fly to St. Lucia?' the intern asks) that they feel any behavior on their part is justified and above reproach. 

... Which brings us to Meta and its former diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) executive Barbara Furlow-Smiles. 

Defrauded the company to the tune of more than $4 million. Wow. The intern in the viral video above has got nothing on Furlow-Smiles. 

Katie Daviscourt of The Post Millennial provides more details: 

A former Facebook diversity program manager entered a guilty plea to defrauding the social media company of over $4 million through a criminal scheme in which she pretended to be conducting business in exchange for kickbacks. 

Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who was the global diversity executive for Facebook, has been accused by the Department of Justice of defrauding the company to fund a lavish lifestyle spanning from Georgia to California, the New York Post reports

The DOJ said that Furlow-Smiles 'caused Facebook to pay numerous individuals for goods and services never provided to the company.' Those individuals included her friends and relatives who would then funnel kickbacks to Furlow-Smiles.

Furlow-Smiles was able to carry out the scheme because she had access to company credit cards and her role at the company also included approving invoices, according to prosecutors.

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The same person who creates the charges approves the charges? That ... doesn't seem ethical. In fact, it sounds quite similar to the Biden family business model. Or perhaps something C. Montgomery Burns would have cooked up.

Many were quick to note their lack of surprise, given Furlow-Smiles' DEI role at the company. 

ALL of DEI is a grift. It was just a lot more obvious in this case. 

The fact that it was Meta/Facebook who got defrauded did give many a nice little dose of schadenfreude. 

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Oh, we're sure that Elon Musk had himself a jolly old laugh at this news. 

Just imagine how much every American company could save their shareholders and customers if they all just abolished DEI completely. But Communist China survivor Xi Van Fleet had another reason why companies allow criminals like this into their top echelons.

This is true. But we're still hopeful the tide is turning against the scam of DEI. 

George Bush called it 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' But we don't think there's anything soft about it. It's just racist to give a person like Furlow-Smiles her position when there are certainly many more qualified people -- of both sexes and all races -- who would be qualified to work for Meta ... and who wouldn't rob them and their customers blind. 

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We just have to nip it in the bud like the manager at the top of this article did when her intern flew first class to St. Lucia. We're pretty sure that intern is out of a job now. 

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