Originally posted by rburg:
Originally posted by HOUSTON RICK:
I only deal with criminals periodically on a volunteer basis,
I fear you're much too modest. If you deal with corporate America, I'm betting you just don't see their criminal activity!
The guy that I replaced where I worked until I was laid off in February was a complete and utter sociopath. He essentially lived to steal, even when he could have made ten times more simply actually doing his job.
He stole at least $300,000 from us including fraudulent credit card charges, fraudulent expenses, and fraudulent company checks which were carried as legitimate expenses in the accounting system, but were actually written to him. He stole a credit line check from another company owned by the president and "loaned" the money to the company he actually worked for. He then "repayed" himself thousands of dollars for the fraudulent "loan". He even incorporated a competing company using a company credit card.
He got caught kiting checks, when a bunch of them bounced and the banks contacted the president when he wasn't around. The banks were getting ready to turn the matter over to their fraud divisions and prosecute when the boss fired this guy over the phone and had the locks changed. This was on a Saturday. The guy then drove to the office, kicked in the door and stole a bunch of files, including documents needed to receive pending foreign shipments. He was immediately arrested at his home, and files returned, albeit what portion of the ones he stole, nobody knows.
He then sued the company for wrongful termination. The company counter-sued for his various thefts. I ended up getting hired temporarily to do some forensics to figure out what he'd stolen and what if any evidence he'd destroyed. He'd had the bank stop sending canceled checks in order to conceal his thefts. We subpoenaed the canceled checks from the banks. In a couple of hours, I was able to find nearly $100,000 in fraudulent payee checks, by comparing the payees in the accounting software vs. check copies. He would write checks to himself and then enter them as checks to freight forwarders, shipping lines, etc.
He tried to bluff his way through... while not paying his various attorneys. When it came time to go to trial, he blinked, agreeing to a settlement in our favor for $50,000. If he failed to make a payment or was late, he owed us $200.000. He made a couple of payments, then as I expected, the payments stopped. One of the checks was a company check from a company we'd never heard of. Another was a cashier's check. We recently found out why we got the strange checks and why the payments stopped. He'd gone into business with another patsy and was writing company checks to pay off the judgement. Of course he'd already looted that company's bank accounts, so there was no money. We got the register check because he'd cashed the check at one bank and purchased the register check at another with cash.
We tried to get the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to prosecute and got virtually no cooperation. They didn't even return calls from the Rocky River PD. Apparently now, they're starting to move on the prosecution after a year. I'm told that he's continuing to write checks from the new company even though there's no money in the bank.
We have documentation that this guy stole from two previous employers before stealing from us. He continues to steal to this day.
To top it off, the guy's a convicted felon. He tried to import some Chinese medical gloves. They were defective and Customs wouldn't let him import them. They agreed to allow him to import them as "gardening" gloves. When they were imported as gardening gloves, he then relabeled them as medical gloves and tried to sell them as such. He was caught, convicted and sent to Federal prison.
Yes, there are people with no conscience and they don't all come from trailer parks or housing projects.