My mom is being charged with embezelling $250,000 from a large insurance company. Her boss (an older, very wealthy man), used company credit cards to buy her outfits for company trips, bought her a pool and hot tub for her yearly bonus with the cards, and when the company found out, he said he had no idea about the charges. She has like, 30 something counts against her, alot of them she has actual receipts for legitamite purchases, but if she goes to court, each count could cost her 3-6 years each. She has receipts for about $20,000 of the purchases that she hadn't turned into her boss yet (for stuff like copy paper that they're charging her for!), and there are people thatsaw how her boss bought her gifts, but the risk of a high sentence is too scary to go to court, so she's signing a plea bargain. The plea is for 18 months. I'm 17, my brother and sister are 12 and 8- do you think the judge will sympathize and give her a lesser sentence? Shes a great mom and never even had a ticket.
2007-08-14
06:22:58
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Bailey I
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