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Attorney who scammed UA sorority sentenced to prison

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Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan, a former Gamma Phi Beta sister and attorney responsible for furnishing the UA chapter of Gamma Phi Beta’s new house, was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison, 18 months of home confinement, 40 months supervised probation and mandatory community service. She was also fined $50,000.

In July, Meehan pled guilty to bank fraud. She had previously served as the president of the House Corporation Board of the Epsilon Lambda Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta and had been put in charge of furnishing the sorority’s new $14 million house.

Rather than purchase actual furniture, Meehan opened a fake business account at First Citizens Bank and submitted fraudulent invoices to Greek Resource Services, a contract company responsible for the finances of many UA fraternities and sororities. Meehan was “reimbursed” approximately $375,000 by GRS, all of which she kept for herself.

“Jennifer Meehan betrayed not only her sorority sisters and the group’s solemn sisterhood pledge of loyalty but also her family and her profession,” said John Murdock, president of GRS, in a Wednesday press release. “She devised a scheme that put her personal needs above the Gamma Phi Beta sisterhood.”

The University’s new Gamma Phi Beta house, opened in Aug. 2015, is around 40,000-square-feet and houses 72 sisters.

Meehan has been suspended from practicing law in the state of South Carolina.

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