The man is charged with Marquette database fraud for a decade of rent-free life

Milwaukee –

A 40-year-old man is charged after he has supposedly changed Marquette Housing data through his job, which made it possible for him to live free of charge for over a decade.

According to the criminal complaint, Michael Gerard worked for the Office for Housing Life of Marquette University. Gerard also lived in an apartment near the 17th and the Wells Street in this job, but still had to pay rent. He lived there from 2013 to 2024.

Through his job, Gerard was able to access the universities to internal databases. According to the complaint, he also had the ability to create and change entries in the program.

He lived in the apartment and paid for his rent in the 2013-2014 school year. In the 2014-15 school year, however, Gerard started not paying his rent without being charged to his Marquette account. According to the complaint, he began to change the status of his apartment in December 2014 so that it looks like an employee lived there, or there was a buyout of the room. ORL records show that he was charged with the 2015 autumn temperature of 2015 and the spring period in 2016. However, these fees were all undone.

He supposedly did this with access to Marquette's internal computer programs and changed data to explain why the rent was not collected by this unit. These changes enabled him to live free from 2016 to 2024. He was able to save around 63,500 US dollars.

During the investigation, Gerard initially claimed that the former director of Residence Life gave him permission to use the rental apartment before admitting that he had made all the changes in the database. He feared that the new director would tell him in 2015 that he was not entitled to live in the apartment.

Gerard faces incorrect presentation and computer crimes before a number of theft by changing data.

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