Former UC Davis Employee Arrested in California

A Former UC Davis employee is in police custody facing embezzlement charges and other felonies.

Jennifer Beeman surrendered to cops and was arrested Thursday after allegations of misusing public funds while she was director of the Campus Violence Prevention Program.
She was director for 16 years until December 2008 when she was placed on administrative leave during the investigation. She officially left university employment in June 2009.
Beeman is charged with one count of embezzlement of public funds by a public official, three counts of misuse of funds by a public official, four counts of false accounting and one count of fraudulently altering an account. All charges carry jail terms if found guilty.
Beeman is accused of misusing money from education and outreach programs intended to prevent sexual violence. Investigators say she also embezzled between $2,000 and $13,000.
As part of the investigation, UC Davis returned more than $100,000 to the US Department of Justice that had been originally awarded in 2005. There are questions about how the money was spent, however that does not constitute fraud. Beeman helped administer this grant.
Last year, UC Davis announced that as part of their investigation, they discovered Beeman had exaggerated the numbers of forcible sex offenses reported under the Clery Act in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The University has corrected these numbers, and are changing the collection of these statistics.
An arraignment hearing date has not been set yet.