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.

embezzler

noun cheater, criminal, crook, culprit, defrauder, evildoer, interceptor, lawbreaker, one who commits larceny, peculator, pecuniae averror, pilferer, purloiner, swindler, thief

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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

Specifically, the court recognizes the unfairness of allowing the embezzler to keep money it stole from the company and could order the embezzler to pay back the company.

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

One alternative is to confront the suspected embezzler and try to obtain payment from him or her before going to the police," Durham says.

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

He said the suspected embezzler paid back $29,000, but has disappeared.

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The New York Times and The Washington Post "almost instantaneously transformed" Little Rock judge and bogus businessman David Hale "from a recalcitrant embezzler into a credible source.

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US 1072, in which it was held that an embezzler could not claim a net operating loss deduction for repayment of embezzled funds, as embezzlement was not a "trade or business" for Sec.

Abandoning worthless investment property versus selling at a loss

An embezzler, it would seem, was merely a species of thief.

"Intended as a terror to the idle and profligate": embezzlement and the origins of policing in the Yorkshire worsted industry, c. 1750-1777

Three of a Kind (1943) contained the short novels Sinful Woman, Double Indemnity, and The Embezzler.

Cain, James M

There is no exact description of how an embezzler looks, acts, or thinks.

A plan to prevent pilfering

She was a professional embezzler," the lawyer recalls.

Stop, thief! Embezzlers and on-site thieves take builders for more than $1 billion a year

Against Solinsky's charge - "The man was a tyrant, a murderer, a thief, a liar, an embezzler, a moral pervert, the worst criminal in our nation's history.