The state Treasurer’s Office announced Wednesday in a news release it would help students reclaim money stolen from them in a fraud scheme that involved several McDonald’s employees.
Students can search on the treasurer’s website, treasury.state.la.us, to locate money owed to them through the office’s unclaimed property search tool.
According to the news release, nearly 4,000 students and alumni were affected by the fraud scheme, which saw employees of the McDonald’s in the Student Union overcharging students’ Tiger Cards and pocketing the difference.
The LSU Police Department led a months-long investigation into the scheme, which has seen eight arrests so far. LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said last week that the department anticipates two more arrests, but none have been made so far.