Polk County university official behind payments scam sent to prison

The executive vice president at Southeastern University created a false company to take payments for work another company did for much less money.

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Brian Carroll, a 47-year-old Tennessee man, will serve 15 months in federal prison for a scheme that defrauded Southeastern University in Lakeland out of $155,000.

 

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