Showing posts with label theft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theft. Show all posts
Sunday, January 17, 2010
There was a notice in the local paper that someone from the neigboring county had been arrested for stealing donations meant for the ex-job. While it was neither the ex-boss nor any name I recognized, the person did live in the neighboring county where she lives. I checked with the current management at the ex-job, and the police are looking into whether or not this person was connected with the ex-boss. They also checked the other donation sites... and apparently this person had emptied a good number of them before getting caught :-( Whether or not this individual is connected to the ex-boss, this is simply reprehensible... especially given how much shit the ex-job has been through in the past year!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Okay... I know this isn't what you've been waiting for, but it's just so much more interesting, really! I just got off the phone with The Spy, who told me several very interesting pieces of gossip.
1. The ex-boss really is filing a workman's comp claim against the ex-job for the "injury" which she claims to have obtained the day before she was fired (which, if such an injury really had occurred it would have been her fault for two separate reasons, plus she had let the workman's comp insurance lapse!). Anyway, The Spy learned about this, because when she filed her claim, she listed one person as a witness to her "accident" - her husband! And she also listed both her husband and The Spy as people who could verify that she had indeed been injured. The Board, their lawyer and a workman's comp lawyer had a meeting today to discuss this and other issues, and they asked The Spy to come down and join them. He assumed they'd ask him questions about what (if anything) he had seen, and then ask him to leave... but they allowed him to stay for the whole meeting. Thus the gossip. Anyway, he had not seen her "accident/injury" nor had he witnessed her suffering any kind of pain or discomfort in the 24 hours between the alleged accident and her firing. He told them that he would indeed be willing to testify at a workman's comp hearing if so required.
2. A warrant has been issued against the ex-boss for theft of two items: a small electronic device and a large appliance type thing, together worth over $1000. The sherrif's department and various others are still investigating the whole money thing. They don't want to charge/arrest her until the investigation is complete. Right now, in addition to the personal purchases she made on the company credit card, they've found that she was writing checks to herself, but putting them in the checkbook ledger as checks to places the ex-job owed money! Additionally, they've uncovered something like $25,000 in unpaid bills she left behind.
3. This is my favorite. Up until now, it didn't look like there was anything the ex-boss's daughter could be charged with. Well, last spring she was on probation for assault. Her sentence was however many hours of community service. Apparently, she claimed to have done all her community service at the ex-job! At the same time she was drawing a salary from there! With her mother (they have different last names, or at least they do when the daughter uses her married name) signing off as the superviser who observed her doing the community service! They're turning this information over to the probation people, who hopefully will get her in a hella lot of trouble for this.
Anyway, that's the gossip. I'll have a post up on the EX-boyfriend very soon :-)
1. The ex-boss really is filing a workman's comp claim against the ex-job for the "injury" which she claims to have obtained the day before she was fired (which, if such an injury really had occurred it would have been her fault for two separate reasons, plus she had let the workman's comp insurance lapse!). Anyway, The Spy learned about this, because when she filed her claim, she listed one person as a witness to her "accident" - her husband! And she also listed both her husband and The Spy as people who could verify that she had indeed been injured. The Board, their lawyer and a workman's comp lawyer had a meeting today to discuss this and other issues, and they asked The Spy to come down and join them. He assumed they'd ask him questions about what (if anything) he had seen, and then ask him to leave... but they allowed him to stay for the whole meeting. Thus the gossip. Anyway, he had not seen her "accident/injury" nor had he witnessed her suffering any kind of pain or discomfort in the 24 hours between the alleged accident and her firing. He told them that he would indeed be willing to testify at a workman's comp hearing if so required.
2. A warrant has been issued against the ex-boss for theft of two items: a small electronic device and a large appliance type thing, together worth over $1000. The sherrif's department and various others are still investigating the whole money thing. They don't want to charge/arrest her until the investigation is complete. Right now, in addition to the personal purchases she made on the company credit card, they've found that she was writing checks to herself, but putting them in the checkbook ledger as checks to places the ex-job owed money! Additionally, they've uncovered something like $25,000 in unpaid bills she left behind.
3. This is my favorite. Up until now, it didn't look like there was anything the ex-boss's daughter could be charged with. Well, last spring she was on probation for assault. Her sentence was however many hours of community service. Apparently, she claimed to have done all her community service at the ex-job! At the same time she was drawing a salary from there! With her mother (they have different last names, or at least they do when the daughter uses her married name) signing off as the superviser who observed her doing the community service! They're turning this information over to the probation people, who hopefully will get her in a hella lot of trouble for this.
Anyway, that's the gossip. I'll have a post up on the EX-boyfriend very soon :-)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Well, I don’t think the ex-boss’s attempt at getting the current board members removed (see previous post) is going to be successful after what happened at last night’s board meeting! (Man, I wish I could’ve gone! Unfortunately, I had C class to attend...)
The meeting apparently had some revelations which, while not shocking to me at this point, were pretty shocking to most of the general public. Apparently, in addition to the tax fraud and numerous unpaid bills that were known about, the ex-boss had opened an account in the business’s name at a local home improvement center, and had spent thousands of dollars on things which NEVER came to the ex-job! (You know, fancy door knobs and expensive bathroom fixtures, the sort of thing that not only didn’t come to the ex-job, but which never would be purchased by a place like that.) That’s definitive proof that she was stealing… and the board announced that they are going to file criminal charges against her! (Apparently they’d wanted to make sure that they had an actual criminal case, not just a case of incompetence, before they involved the police.) Meanwhile, the forensic accountant they’ve hired is still investigating the bank account to determine where and to whom funds went, and they’re still trying to locate all of the accounts which had been opened in the name of the ex-job! Additionally, the ex-boss had been paying her husband several hundred dollars a week for “maintenance” – although he maybe did maintenance work up there once every other month… and she had been paying her daughter several hundred dollars a week for “help” she was allegedly providing from out of state! (Meanwhile, I know via the boyfriend that the ex-boss’s husband was on food stamps – despite the large salary his wife was bringing in, and despite the fact that he was getting paid several hundred dollars a week, albeit under the table!)
I am thrilled that the board has finally gone public with all of this, and that people in our local community and the national non-profit community in this sector can finally know the truth about what a terrible person the ex-boss is. The joy is, of course, thoroughly tempered by the knowledge that all this money was stolen from a cause that I care deeply about. So much suffering could have been alleviated if the ex-job had had the funds which she embezzled. Additionally, I know that several of my former coworkers – very hard-working people with families to support – had asked for raises several times, and had been told that there just wasn’t enough money. And unfortunately, since the board wants to get the place out of debt ASAP, I doubt raises are in their near future :-(
One of the newspaper reporters who was at the meeting (author of the article I mentioned in my previous post) wants to speak to me. (The Spy was at the meeting and he gave her my number. He’s also the reason why I know what happened there!) I figured I should run it past the board first, as they did ask me to keep this confidential… although since they’ve gone public, I don’t know what the problem would be. Unfortunately, having my name in the paper would just anger the ex-boss and her psychotic family who like to threaten me with bodily harm and dead pets (NPH!). So I bought some time by telling the reporter I had to run it past the board while I decide if I should talk to her or not. Thoughts?
The meeting apparently had some revelations which, while not shocking to me at this point, were pretty shocking to most of the general public. Apparently, in addition to the tax fraud and numerous unpaid bills that were known about, the ex-boss had opened an account in the business’s name at a local home improvement center, and had spent thousands of dollars on things which NEVER came to the ex-job! (You know, fancy door knobs and expensive bathroom fixtures, the sort of thing that not only didn’t come to the ex-job, but which never would be purchased by a place like that.) That’s definitive proof that she was stealing… and the board announced that they are going to file criminal charges against her! (Apparently they’d wanted to make sure that they had an actual criminal case, not just a case of incompetence, before they involved the police.) Meanwhile, the forensic accountant they’ve hired is still investigating the bank account to determine where and to whom funds went, and they’re still trying to locate all of the accounts which had been opened in the name of the ex-job! Additionally, the ex-boss had been paying her husband several hundred dollars a week for “maintenance” – although he maybe did maintenance work up there once every other month… and she had been paying her daughter several hundred dollars a week for “help” she was allegedly providing from out of state! (Meanwhile, I know via the boyfriend that the ex-boss’s husband was on food stamps – despite the large salary his wife was bringing in, and despite the fact that he was getting paid several hundred dollars a week, albeit under the table!)
I am thrilled that the board has finally gone public with all of this, and that people in our local community and the national non-profit community in this sector can finally know the truth about what a terrible person the ex-boss is. The joy is, of course, thoroughly tempered by the knowledge that all this money was stolen from a cause that I care deeply about. So much suffering could have been alleviated if the ex-job had had the funds which she embezzled. Additionally, I know that several of my former coworkers – very hard-working people with families to support – had asked for raises several times, and had been told that there just wasn’t enough money. And unfortunately, since the board wants to get the place out of debt ASAP, I doubt raises are in their near future :-(
One of the newspaper reporters who was at the meeting (author of the article I mentioned in my previous post) wants to speak to me. (The Spy was at the meeting and he gave her my number. He’s also the reason why I know what happened there!) I figured I should run it past the board first, as they did ask me to keep this confidential… although since they’ve gone public, I don’t know what the problem would be. Unfortunately, having my name in the paper would just anger the ex-boss and her psychotic family who like to threaten me with bodily harm and dead pets (NPH!). So I bought some time by telling the reporter I had to run it past the board while I decide if I should talk to her or not. Thoughts?
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