Sloan-Kettering Worker Allegedly Stole Millions From Cancer Hospital

Hospital says employee has been fired

A worker for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan is accused of stealing millions of dollars from the hospital by ordering toner-ink cartridges in bulk and selling it elsewhere.    

Marque Gumbs was arraigned Wednesday on a grand larceny charge in excess of $1 million and ordered held on $100,000 bail. The criminal complaint said he worked as a receiving clerk at the hospital responsible for ordering, receiving and stocking ink cartridges for the hospital's printers.      

The Wall Street Journal says the 32-year-old office worker intercepted the deliveries so he could sell the toner elsewhere.      

The hospital says Gumbs has been "terminated.''      

The journal said his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.     

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