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United Employee Sentenced for Stealing $500K Worth of Meal Vouchers – FlyerTalk - The world's most popular frequent flyer community

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"A former United Airlines employee has been given a federal prison sentence after stealing meal vouchers from the carrier, Peoria’s Journal Star reports. The outlet reveals that despite being fired by the carrier back in 2016, Ollantay Corujo kept his uniform and badge, using them to access computers at various terminals around the country and to print off individual meal vouchers.

Describing Corujo’s crime, the outlet explained that, ‘While each voucher was worth around $20 to $30 … they were the functional equivalent of cash … Corujo would then ‘redeem’ those vouchers through a food truck company that he owned, causing cash to flow to him without him ever buying or using the vouchers as intended.’"

From "United Employee Sentenced for Stealing $500K Worth of Meal Vouchers – FlyerTalk - The world's most popular frequent flyer community".

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