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Santa Wasn't The Only One Busy Christmas Eve: Embezzlement

Embezzlements occur throughout the year, and Christmas season is no exception.  In fact, in my experience the rate of theft and embezzlement is greater in the November and December time period, commonly with the illicit proceeds used to fund holiday shopping for family and friends.  Many of these thefts may not be discovered until the Spring, or even later. In …

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An Appropriate Sentence Long Over Due For Financial Crimes

Spending months of time, energy and funds investigating an employee theft and embezzlement, only to have the individual responsible receive a non-jail sentence, can be very frustrating to the victim of the crime.  Often the decision to pursue criminal charges is based in part on the likelihood of whether the police will investigate it, the prosecutor will prosecute it, and …

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Financial Crime – On An Upswing?

Lately we have been inundated with calls for new matters involving thefts and other financial matters.  Just having finished writing up another embezzlement investigation, there remains one for me to document and two in progress waiting on the last pieces of information.   Two more are waiting to be started.  We just completed 8 to 9 cases of theft or embezzlement, …

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