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.
A former Chick-fil-A employee in Grapevine, Texas allegedly returned to the restaurant after his termination, slipped behind the register, and processed 800 fake catering orders to funnel over $80,000 in refunds onto his own credit cards. The machine he built was simple. The door that let him build it was left open.