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embezzlement
- The stealing of money entrusted to one's care: “The treasurer of the company embezzled a million dollars.”
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He remains serving a three-year sentence for embezzlement that he was convicted on in May.
Do prior convictions for white-collar crimes like embezzlement constitute significant criminal history?
Dutschke pleaded guilty to embezzlement, according to the newspaper.
Before Crundwell, the largest municipal fraud was also an embezzlement case committed by a woman named Harriette Walters.
The Marquet study showed that the most common embezzlement scheme involved the issuance of forged checks or unauthorized checks.
In fact, according to the 2011 Marquet Report on Embezzlement, women are more likely to embezzle than men.
“I was quite shocked at the scope of the embezzlement,” he said.
Durkee put the blame on an employee named Elsa Martinez, who fled to Mexico after the alleged embezzlement.
Immediately after the alleged embezzlement surfaced, the First California Bank froze about 400 bank accounts.
Long died from a deadly recipe of greed, embezzlement, and paws.
Amid all the midterms fearmongering, charges of corruption and embezzlement are falling through the cracks.
The CFO was ousted, along with Ortseifen, who was charged with stock-market manipulation and embezzlement.
In a high point of view, it was simple embezzlement; it was little better than a form of swindling.
He was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of thirty-three hundred dollars from the firm which employed him.
It is as certain as anything can be that George Horbury never lost a penny by embezzlement or, indeed, in any other way.
Her husband abused her, and before they had been married a year he ran away to escape a charge of embezzlement.
This might be a case of embezzlement such as he had before known among his younger patrons.
Try as the committee might to keep the matter secret, the embezzlement would leak out and afford sensational copy for the papers.
Favoral appeared to me singularly calm for a man charged with embezzlement and forgery.
Here obtaining goods under false pretenses and embezzlement are commended by God himself.
Embezzlement is the appropriation, by a clerk or servant, to himself, of money or property put into his hands in trust.
Already were seen the effects of the wealth that was pouring into Italy in the embezzlement of the public money by the Scipios.
The slightest embezzlement of cinnamon, or wilful damage to the plant, was visited with death.
Then difficulties followed, and soon her husband stood in the dock charged with embezzlement.
It was the paper he had prepared to hide Morton's embezzlement.
Sometime after this young fellow was arrested for embezzlement.
It is a clear case of breach of trust, if not of embezzlement.
"A Government clerk convicted of embezzlement," was the answer.
The Lomovs have all been honourable people, and not one has ever been tried for embezzlement, like your grandfather!
First, diversion of the public funds to his own use,—embezzlement or defalcation we should call it.
In 1809 it became the place of punishment for two Government officials who were convicted of embezzlement on a large scale.
These circumstances must be taken into consideration in Hook's favour in examining the charge of embezzlement.
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