Onetime U staffer admits using school funds to buy, resell $134K worth of computers

A former University of Minnesota employee has pleaded guilty to using school money to buy dozens of computers that he resold, possibly to fund his travel expenses and gambling habit.

Michael J. McDaniel, 34, of Lilydale, admitted in Hennepin County District Court last week to two counts of theft by swindle in the university case and to a theft by swindle charge involving items from a Target in an earlier case.

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