Federal prosecutors say a Colby, Kansas controller forged 233 checks and moved $753,575 out of her employer's account over nearly nine years. The alleged machine was one person, one signature line, and a room with no second set of eyes.
William Smith spent eleven years draining a Detroit non-profit while signing off on the books himself. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court told him the 19-year sentence stands.
Murielle Misczak ran the books at a German-language daycare in Brooklyn and rerouted tuition checks into accounts she controlled. She pleaded guilty this week. The receipts read like a fever dream.
Star Rana Jackson ran the American Indian Center of Arkansas for over a decade before she became its executive director. She also became, by design or by drift, the only person who could touch the federal money. Then the money started moving.
In the summer of 2020, a Minnesota electronics plant invented work that was never done to make a quarter look like growth. Five years later, the SEC named the men who let the number go out.
For eight years, Lester T. Jones Jr. ran the Atlanta Hawks' expense reimbursement program and the corporate American Express account at the same time. The two systems did not talk to each other. Neither did the people he supervised.