Maybe it's not Munchausen if it is a purely for profit thing, which hers seems to have been? Not quite sure.
Maybe it's not Munchausen if it is a purely for profit thing, which hers seems to have been? Not quite sure.
Embezzlement in churches and other nonprofit organizations is a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize. You often have low paid or unpaid people handling money without a lot of supervision or oversight. Rudimentary or nonexistent systems of internal control, and the feeling that people may be insulted and quit if you check on them. Most of these small organizations aren’t subject to any kind of external audit. A nice old lady with a gambling problem or a sick family member, who’s “been here forever and we couldn’t live without her” can do a lot of damage over time.Originally Posted by iris lilies
Finished Season 4 of The Good Fight.
I saw more than one library employee fired for mishandling of money. I was always grateful that my department wasn’t a public facing one where I had to watch the cash. We spent $3 million a year but none of it involved cash.
It’s incredible how creative people can be, even without direct access to cash. In my years in small government, I had to deal with people finding ways to steal fuel, scrap metal, new and used vehicle parts, office supplies, electricity and even dirt. We had travel fraud cases at least once a year, and all kinds of payroll fraud. We had employees extracting government discounts from vendors for their side businesses, and abuse work credit cards or vehicles in many interesting ways. It tended to breed a certain degree of paranoia over time.
But to me, the most depressing thing of all was how often people rationalized what they were doing with stories about how they were being unfairly treated in compensation, promotion or work rules. Some would even argue that they were never told not to steal various items by management.
More than a decade ago, a library employee in our town was convicted of embezzling over $800,000.
Wow, Rosa. Was it a male or female?
Back in Beaufort, a male embezzled about 20,000 that had been raised to start a dog park.
okay----last place I was, i usta take home small pieces o' scrap metal, or else make stuff at work on break. But, not to resell as scrap for $2 per hundred or whatever. Also, I carted home some great big pieces after asking the superintendent if it would be okay. It would/ve cost the company more in wages to cut it up small enough to go in the scrap dumpster, to sell for $2 per 100 or whatever, anyway. Also, some nice chunks of scrap plywood, headed for the landfill. But instead--I used it on my backyard cottage project. Plus---like Mr Dahl said: I rationalized that since I was VERY underpaid, it was the least they could do to comp me, for being the super-productive worker that I was. Yup. Now, there were several guys who had backed their trucks up to the scrap aluminum bin, and loaded up on scrap clean aluminum to sell on the way home to the metal buyer, for a pretty penny. The management told them, NO from now on. Later on, after I retired, a chunky woman in accounting was arrested for embezzling about $360,000 in 4 years. She prolly needed the funds so she could visit Ho-Woy-ya and stuff. Restaurant meals on a regular basis. Pay for worthless degrees for the kids. Trade(get screwed) on a nice new vehicle, now and then. I forget how much jail time she got. Prolly not much. But yeah---true story.
She was a woman in her sixties, and the embezzlement took place over a span of 7 years.
I read up on your library’s embezzler.. That is a lot of money for what appears to be a small library. They have a collection of 70,000 volumes which is in my world is a medium size branch library. So, is your library then a single organization
with its own governing board? It is not part of a library system?
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