A federal judge in Virginia sentenced a travel agent to 13 years behind bars for defrauding George Mason University, other schools and several people.
From September 2022 through at least last November, Maurice Eugene Smith took the money of customers for travel planning services and, instead of booking their hotels or travel accommodations, used the dollars for his own ends, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a release.
Some of the money paid to Smith’s company, Eugene Toriko LLC, was used for his travel or sports gambling expenses…