TRENTON — A former office manager at New Jersey City University in Jersey City pleaded guilty today to helping her husband steal more than $486,000 from the school's Student Government Organization, according to the Attorney General's Office. According to a news release: Shaunette Ruffin-Moody, 48, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty to a forgery charge before Superior Court Judge Lourdes...
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The location of New Jersey City University, where Shaunette Ruffin-Moody was an office manager. Ruffin-Moody pleaded guilty today to helping her husband steal over 400K from the student government organization.TRENTON — A former office manager at New Jersey City University in Jersey City pleaded guilty today to helping her husband steal more than $486,000 from the school's Student Government Organization, according to the Attorney General's Office.
According to a news release:
Shaunette Ruffin-Moody, 48, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty to a forgery charge before Superior Court Judge Lourdes I. Santiago in Hudson County. Her husband, Alex Moody, 51, pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced May 3 to six years in prison. The couple must pay $486,578 in restitution.
As office manager, Ruffin-Moody filled out payment vouchers to have checks issued for the Student Government Organization. A State Police investigation found that between May 2007 and July 2010, Ruffin-Moody issued 247 unauthorized checks made payable to herself, her husband or others.
The pair forged the signatures of the school's associate dean of students on most checks.
Ruffin-Moody is expected to be sentenced in September. The state prison sentences will run concurrently with federal sentences handed down in April as a result of charges of theft brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Ruffin-Moody was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, and Moody was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
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