embezzler

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embezzler

n. a person who commits the crime of embezzlement by fraudulently taking funds or property of an employer or trust.

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* Finance and accounting are the most common job functions of embezzlers (37%).

Hiscox finds employee theft costs U.S. businesses $1.13M in losses on average

If successful in court, the embezzler would be required to pay the employer back all the money stolen.

What do you do with an embezzling employee? An incorrect response can be rife with consequences

* Payroll fraud--the embezzler adds names of fictitious individuals to the company payroll, thereby collecting additional salaries.

Is your business safe from employee fraud?

Lord Black said that he was being wrongly accused as an embezzler and that he is trying to "retrieve my reputation as an honest man."

BLACK, BREEDEN DISAGREE IN TESTIMONY

As one of the fiery Jewish nihilists of his generation, variously a critic, author, and bank embezzler, Kovner embodies the problem of identity as a series of translations across cultural boundaries.

Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avram Uri Kovner

writes Mueller, Liberia's weakened regime "was toppled by an armed group initially of 100 or so led by an accused embezzler and jailbreak artist, Charles Taylor, and by a somewhat larger group led by a psychopathic, hymn-singing drunk."

The decline of war

The evidence was sufficient to put the embezzler back in jail.

The fraud examiners: sleuthing careers bring CPAs personal and professional satisfaction

Once you alert the embezzler of your suspicions, evidence may disappear, so try to review, or at least secure, all relevant records before confronting the embezzler.

Professional pickpockets: protecting your company from embezzlement. (Legal Briefs)

Although originally built in "1922" (169) as "an embezzler's folly" (3), the building is later transformed by "Sisters Devoted to Indian and Colored People" into "an asylum/boarding school for Indian girls," "CHRIST THE KING SCHOOL FOR NATIVE GIRLS," run by "Mary Magna" (223-24).

Re-imagining agency: Toni Morrison's Paradise

"Offences of this nature and in this quantity, against your background as an embezzler, makes the offences so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified," the judge said.

Bookkeeper jailed for latest fraud

When John Bigelow, for example, states that `having a plagiarist as the head of a university is like having an embezzler running an accounting firm', this certainly rings bells in these days of corporate fraud but it fails all the more substantial tests of institutional similarities.

Does plagiarism really matter? David Robinson's plagiarism had to be exposed. But the subsequent debate showed that many of his strongest critics don't understand the real reasons why it mattered, nor what is at stake in defending the academy. (against the current)

Although there were other financial problems, Puls told E&P that the embezzlement "was the straw that broke the camel's back." He said the suspected embezzler paid back $29,000, but has disappeared.