Fairfax County Schools Warehouse Manager Ran a Racket Selling School PCs

In Fairfax County, schools chronically beg parents to purchase school supplies for children- supplies that should be already paid for by the generous personal property taxes. Now comes news that Craig Soderberg, a warehouse chief for the County Schools was stealing laptops and selling them on Ebay since 2003. Cops raided his home and carried 1200 laptops away as evidence.

From ABC7 here:

60-year-old Craig Soderberg of Alexandria was trusted for more than a decade with managing the school system’s warehouse in Springfield.

The warehouse serves as the distribution point of supplies, but school officials say that in June, they launched an internal investigation relating to Soderberg. Then in October, the case was handed over to Fairfax County Police.

Police walked out of Soderberg’s Alexandria home with more than 1,200 laptops. Soderberg removed laptops from the warehouse, refurbished them, and then sold them on eBay.

Police aren’t saying how long Soderberg profited from selling the county’s property. But we did find an eBay account used by Craig Soderberg that sold laptops and computer accessories. It opened in 2003 and has received glowing reviews from customers.

So apparently he started stealing laptops as soon as he gained access to the warehouse. Its a pretty rotten thing to do, but it is even worse that the schools have such a piss-poor system of audit trails that this could go undetected for a decade.