Former NSU athletics official arrested, accused of defrauding school

DAVIE, Fla. — The former interim athletics director at Nova Southeastern University was booked into the Broward County jail on Friday on charges that he defrauded the Davie school by submitting fake invoices.

John Sung was initially arrested in late November in East Providence, Rhode Island, where he had been serving as the athletics director at an all-girls Catholic high school, before being extradited to South Florida. He was fired from the school shortly after his arrest, multiple Rhode Island media outlets report.

Sung, 47, of Warwick, Rhode Island, is accused of defrauding NSU out of nearly $58,000 from October 2023 through this February. He had been appointed interim athletics director on Aug. 5, 2024…

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