Mayer Brown's former chief information officer allegedly went to elaborate lengths to steal from the law firm so he could buy a Cadillac, an RV, a van, and a mobile home, The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports.
David Tresch, 51, initially began working as a server operations manager at Mayer Brown in 2004 and quickly moved up the ranks to become CIO in July 2011.
But he was fired just this summer after the firm discovered he started defrauding the company as soon as he started working there, prosecutors say.
Tresch is accused of approving $7.8 million in payments to an outside tech support vendor that wasn't actually doing any work for the law firm, Law Blog reported.
In exchange, the vendor allegedly deposited roughly a million in Tresch's own accounts.
When his colleages questioned him about the shady payments for work that didn't happen, Tresch asked if he was going to jail, according to court documents.
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