The former president of the Florida A&M University Federal Credit Union, and a University policy institute director were sentenced to more than two years in federal prison last week and ordered to repay $134,000 in Housing and Urban Development grant money they were found guilty of stealing.
Eugene Telfair, the credit union president, was sentenced to a 30-month prison term. Robert Nixon, the former director of Florida A&M University's Institute on Urban Policy and Commerce, received a sentence of 27 months.
Each were convicted last year on three charges of conspiracy, embezzlement and theft. The two Tallahassee administrators were found guilty of stealing and covering up the theft of federal grant money.
They will report to prison on March 28.
