A Lexington man accused of selling more than $500,000 in computer equipment stolen from the University of Kentucky has pleaded guilty in federal court.
Toquoto Richardson, who worked as a data center operations engineer at UK, received more than $124,000 from 45 sales over a six-year period beginning in 2010, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
But an internal audit revealed Richardson had sold more than $500,000 in computer equipment for personal gain over 10 years, UK said Thursday. The audit determined that the equipment came from the Information Technology department, the university said.
Richardson, 43, was immediately…
