They usually involve what you’d expect: A hot-shot, globe-trotting professor charges twice for travel. He charges his university, and he charges his hosts at his destination. Or he consistently inflates his expenses. Not by a lot, which would attract attention, but by a few hundred dollars, say, with each expense report.
All we know about Seshu Desu, a high-ranking engineering professor at SUNY Binghamton, is that he inflated:
Court documents show that on or about April 22, 2009, Desu submitted a trip receipt from Worldwide Travel Inc. for $1,985 — for which he was reimbursed… Desu’s actual airline travel cost only $1,585…
But UD figures there’s got to be a lot more to this story.