Pump & Dump

The CFO withdrew six hundred dollars at a time. The restaurant kept smiling.

Aaron Mattison, the former chief financial officer of Atlanta's Bar Vegan, has been indicted on theft, forgery, and money laundering charges tied to alleged withdrawals that walked out of the company in pieces small enough not to trip a wire. The restaurant is closed. The questions are not.

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He came back after they fired him and rang up mac and cheese 800 times

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.

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