Laura Fero (Ramsey County Jail)
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The former dean of nursing at St. Catherine University in St. Paul has been sentenced for embezzling more $400,000 from the school to help her boyfriend.
A Ramsey County District Court Judge sentenced Laura Fero, 56, on Wednesday to three years of supervised probation for one count of felony theft by swindle. Fero pleaded guilty in April.
The school alerted St. Paul police when it discovered it had lost around $400,000 after she left her position in August 2023. Fero, between August 2020 and August 2023, used her position to pay her then-boyfriend’s company, JB and Associates, $412,644 for “little or no services to the university.”
Fero was arrested in May of last year at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after she arrived on a flight from Orlando, Florida.
Fero’s former boyfriend was found not guilty on six counts of theft by swindle in July 2024.
She was originally charged with six counts of theft by swindle, but five counts were dropped as part of a plea agreement.
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