Domino Effect
When Susan Dawn Seibert, 49, learned that her employer, Southern California’s Leucadia Pizzeria chain, was planning to audit its books, she quickly resigned. In her four years as the chain’s bookkeeper, Seibert had managed to embezzle more than $545,000 by forging 172 checks to herself, and covering the fraud by listing the payees as restaurant suppliers. She pleaded guilty to embezzlement and forgery, and was sentenced to four years in prison. Why take so much money? She needed a lot of cash to pay back her previous employer, who had sued her — for embezzlement. (RC/Rancho Santa Fe Review) ...Always check references.Original Publication Date: 25 August 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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