My aunt barbie our accountant stole 10,000 dollars from us.?

Question

My aunt barbie was our accountant for 15 years, and in the last 6 monthes we have evidence that 10,000 dollars of our money went missing, she was in charge of taking it to the bank, and we have evidence she purposely modified our financial books to hide cash so we wouldn't know it was missing. We bring this all to the cops and they tell us the only way to charge her criminally is a forensic audit of our financial records, which costs 15-20,000. This is outrageous that she will get away with our money unless she confesses. She's taking a polygraph in a week, but even if she fails it isn't admissible in court, it just gives the cops enough reason to aggressively interrogate her. Any advice?

Answer 1

Perhaps you should pursue her in a civil court. If you have evidence that she stole the money, you could sue her for the $10K. You might want to check with a lawyer.

Unfortunately, the real world ain't like all the TV shows. But I find it hard to believe the cops can't charge her without a forensic audit. And, that price tags seems kinda high also. Wouldn't a regular audit show the discrepancies?

Answer 2

You will of course have to prosecute her. But before you do that make sure that you have solid proof. You mention that she modified the books to hide the evidence, what type of books do you have. If your using an accounting program go to the audit trail and drill down to the transaction that are in question. If you don't have an audit trail then you will need to hire probably a cpa to determine the fraud. There is apparently alot of things that have been left out of the questions such as type of business, what made you suspect her and how you obtained "proof". The big question here is why, and how did she do it. Without more background there isn't really much you can get from this board in terms of advice.

Another point to consider is if you wrong, what happens then. So I indicated earlier make sure you have proof. Have you tried talking to her and can she explain the discrepencies?

Good Luck

Answer 3

u could tkl to her and hide a video recorder under the wach of the cops of by phone while the cops are listening tell her y she did it and maybe u'll get lucky and she will say the trhuth and she wont kno it u could make tell the the thruth or say she'll go to jail? if the cops dont find any evidence u can kiss that 10 grand good-bye

Answer 4

Go buy Lawyer Barbie to sue Accountant Barbie.

Answer 5

Dude put her *** in jail where she belongs if she fails what a *****.