{"id":1266135,"date":"2024-05-22T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=1266135"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T18:20:37","slug":"former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-barbara-furlow-smiles-stole-over-5-million-from-her-roles-with-meta-facebook-and-nike\">Barbara Furlow-Smiles stole over $5 million from her roles with Meta (Facebook) and Nike. <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity manager at Meta (Facebook) and <a href=\"\/nike\">Nike<\/a>, pleaded guilty to a $5 million fraud case in December 2023 and was sentenced to prison for 5 years and 3 months this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her sentence, the U.S.&nbsp;Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Georgia ordered Furlow-Smiles to pay restitution of $121,054.50 to Nike&nbsp;and $4,981,783.58 to Meta-owned Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, the court sentenced the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 years and 3 months imprisonment<br \/>3 years of supervised release<br \/>Restitution of $5,102,838.08<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-22-at-4.18.09?PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1266268\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During her time at Facebook from 2017-2021, Furlow-Smiles admitted to stealing over $4.9 million as part of the scheme to fund a &#8220;luxury lifestyle,&#8221; prosecutors said. After she was terminated from Facebook, Furlow-Smiles ran a similar scheme with Nike, where she worked from 2021-2023 and stole more than $100,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As Lead Strategist at Facebook, Furlow-Smiles\u2019 employer put an extreme amount of trust in her, only to have that trust completely violated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;she&nbsp;was&nbsp;fired, she carelessly continued her fraudulent schemes at Nike, thinking she was untouchable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, she not only threw away a lucrative career but will serve time behind bars for her excessive greed.<\/p>\n<cite>Keri Farley, FBI Atlanta Special Agent<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Furlow-Smiles is the latest major scandal at Nike in recent years with former marketing manager Errol Andam charged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-employee-charged-1-million-in-fraud-scheme\/\">$1.5 million scheme<\/a> and ex-VP of North America, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/ann-hebert\">Ann Hebert<\/a>, stepping down from her role after it was revealed she was using her employee discount to help her son&#8217;s resale business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI blew it big time,\u201d Furlow-Smiles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/business\/2024\/05\/i-blew-it-big-time-former-facebook-nike-dei-head-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-stealing-millions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">admitted<\/a> in a letter to the judge in her case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Furlow-Smiles stole over $5 million from her roles with Meta (Facebook) and Nike. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, a former diversity manager&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":328301,"featured_media":1266157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1224791],"tags":[],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-22T20:28:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T18:20:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"998\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luis Torres\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@LTOnDaTrack\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Luis Torres\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/\",\"name\":\"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-22T20:28:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-23T18:20:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg\",\"width\":1440,\"height\":998},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":225,\"caption\":\"Snkrs Day\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicekicks\",\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nicekicks\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday\",\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nicekicks\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud | Snkrs Day","description":"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud","og_description":"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/","og_site_name":"Snkrs Day","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","article_published_time":"2024-05-22T20:28:28+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-23T18:20:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1440,"height":998,"url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Luis Torres","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@LTOnDaTrack","twitter_site":"@snkrsday","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Luis Torres","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["WebPage","ItemPage"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/","name":"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud | Snkrs Day","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg","datePublished":"2024-05-22T20:28:28+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-23T18:20:37+00:00","description":"Former Nike diversity manager Barbara Furlow-Smiles was sentenced to prison for $5 million in fraud. Read more on Snkrs Day.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2024\/05\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud.jpg","width":1440,"height":998},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/former-nike-diversity-manager-barbara-furlow-smiles-sentenced-to-prison-5-million-in-fraud\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Former Nike Diversity Manager Sentenced to Prison for $5 Million in Fraud"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","name":"Snkrs Day","description":"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization","name":"Snkrs Day","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","width":400,"height":225,"caption":"Snkrs Day"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/x.com\/snkrsday","http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/snkrsday"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/328301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266135"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266269,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266135\/revisions\/1266269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266135"},{"taxonomy":"cultivate_rss","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cultivate_rss?post=1266135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}