NYC law firm employee convicted of stealing $376,000 worth of copy machine toner
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(I seem to read news about some US govt department buying IT systems for 3~10x the price every month)
Not everything needs to be a socio-economic conspiracy theory. Justice prevailed here. If you have evidence that this law firm is fraudulently overcharging its clients, I suggest you present that evidence to the authorities. In the meantime, don't try to insinuate that this guy was somehow a victim.
[1] I know technically the conviction was for larceny. Looking at the 3rd paragraph of the following, it can be seen as a pretty blurry line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement#Embezzlement_versu.... Based on the example there, it seems like the charge could just have easily fit the definition of embezzlement.
Frames and other less desirable/recyclable parts are just left as trash.
Common wisdom is a seatpost gets you about $10 which helps towards one's daily fix.
Actually bike theft around here falls into two categories -- high end that are shipped out of area quickly and low end which are chopped up and "recycled" for a quick buck.
Lots of the chop shops have been found of late due to a community effort to try and clean things up.
1. frames cost more so harder to flip
2. frames typically have a serial number (equivalency of a VIN) which make them trackable for theft.
It's just construction theft. Stealings not great but it happens, no reason to get depressed about it.
Not like they were looting straight after the storm or any thing, perhaps that might be depressing but looting in natural disasters is just a myth. A strange myth people cling to, I can think of happier fables to believe in.
Try googling <event name> and "looting" and look for verified or police reports rather than Nth hand rumor and "looting has been reported".
You will find it is unfortunately less rare than one might hope.
Between an approximately two year period (Oct 2010 to Dec 2012), he ordered an amount of toners that greatly exceeded the law firm's usage. This jump in cost would have been pretty obvious to an auditor/accountant comparing it to the historical order amount for ink toners & some sanity check.
But because he got away with it for two+ years, makes me wonder whether he greatly increased these orders after the first year of getting away with it.