About five years before I retired, a co-worker friend of mine and I started noticing news articles about embezzlement in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. These articles started appearing at the rate of about one a week, and many times involved considerable sums of money.
We were also intrigued to discover that in virtually every case the embezzler was a female entrusted by the business, charitable firm, or fraternal org. A few of the thieves were male, but we were astonished to discover the overwhelming majority were females.
Usually these females were single women and were given sole control of the business or org. finances. Many times after being caught they claimed a bad gambling habit forced them to steal. And they always meant to pay the money back. Sure.
Embezzlement from charities and non-profits goes on all the time. I know of one where the thief made off with $30000 and was not prosecuted. At least he/she was fired!!!
It was at a religious school
I’ll add to that. I attended a Chamber of Commerce meeting one day with a bank examiner giving a speech to business owners regarding employee theft. The average embezzler is female, between the ages of 35-60, overweight, married with children. Over spender.
Look at some of the stories in the headlines. The chick who stole the girl scout money or the women who stole money from a little league team....they all fit that mold.
No kidding. I attended the meeting at the last minute with my boss, I was his bookkeeper. We had a good laugh because I wasn’t yet 30 yrs old and not yet overweight.