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UCLA Embezzler?

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Accusations of corruption are nothing new in Massachusetts politics, but in California they come less frequently. Thus, it must have been something of a shock to students at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) when their student body president turned himself in to campus police, who had a warrant for his arrest, after being charged with embezzling more than $400 dollars from the student government.

John Anderson has been charged with embezzling $400 in a minority resume project in which he allegedly made a profit of $675. Anderson charged $25 a book, which Associated Students (AS) officials believe belongs to the student government.

Anderson maintains he is innocent. No trial date has been set. UCLA Daily Bruin

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