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Other than by Pentagon standards, that's a lot of $$$ to lose.
Granted it was broken into many small orders, but it seems odd
that it could go on for years -- was nobody keeping track
of the equipment that was ordered? ("where are those PCs
that were bought last month?").
I still say pled even though it's trendy now to say pleaded. But pleaded sounds dumb to me.
I hope she goes to jail for a long time. They're already taking much of her stolen property but she should end up practically homeless, maybe living in a studio apartment and taking the bus. I'd like to see her in jail for about twenty years and when she gets out she has nothing. That's what stealing $40 million should get you.
Anyway, her life is over because no one would ever hire her again. She may as well rot in jail.
It is not a trend! The legal language is pleaded, not pled.
A lot of people say y'all. It doesn't mean it is proper english.
Both forms are in common use, and pretty much equally. I know that there are many people who prefer one over the other, but there is no justification for the claim that one of them is correct and the other is incorrect.
Doesn't matter that people commonly use pled. Legal scholars like lawyers use pleaded because this is the formal correct word.
You will never see "pled" in a legal document just like you will never see "y'all" in a legal document.
How is it that her husband wasn't also charged? Where did he think that $40 MILLION dollars that appeared in his small business bank account came from? Perhaps he thought it came from the Tooth Fairy. Yeah.
Wow. It seems unbelievable someone could take this much money, and yet, this woman really seems to be in a perfect position to do so. She's a single manager in one department (of many) in the Med School, who reports to the Department Administrator, who in turn, reports to the Department Chair, who's a physician and likely not laser focused on the finances of the department (because that's the defendant's role). She has access to likely hundreds of separate financial accounts in general administrative and grant money and can easily shift and change the balances of these accounts (though usually grants require multiple signers and are subject to audit).
My guess is the $40M is not arrived at from the original value of the assets, but the price obtained on resale.
The article says she "stole $40MILLION in computers and electronics." I'm betting she netted less than half of that from the reseller. They had to know the items were stolen and knew they were taking a risk.
They were stupid. Their lavish lifestyle plastered all over social media made them targets.
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