The credit-card fraud scheme that landed Rutgers in the news for the wrong reasons again — and led to the dismissal or suspension of eight football players — was allegedly engineered to pay off outstanding parking tickets, according to investigators on the case.
On April 22 — eight days after the Rutgers football team concluded spring camp with the Scarlet-White scrimmage — Brendan DeVera made a $200 deposit to his university credit card, investigators said.
Over the next 11 days, police say the former Scarlet Knights linebacker's transactions continued to go up, increasing to a total of $2,400 in deposits, according to a four-page complaint obtained by NJ Advance Media.