Posted on 02/12/2020 7:34:27 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
FLORENCE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A financial secretary for a New Jersey church is accused of embezzling more than $500,000 in parish money to pay her personal bills, including car loans and even her wedding, authorities said Tuesday.
Taisha D. Smith-DeJoseph, 43, of Willingboro, was charged with 13 crimes, including computer criminal activity, tax fraud, theft by deception and second-degree theft, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina told NJ.com.
In a news release, Coffina said Smith-DeJoseph allegedly stole $561,777 over a five-year period until March 2019, when she was overseeing the finances for St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Florence Township, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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guilty as hell.
There is a reason why finacial safeguards are put in place. And audits.
“Smith-DeJoseph filed a fraudulent income tax return in 2017, and did not file at all in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018, NJ.com reported.”
If you have a woman bookkeeper ALWAYS keep a watchful eye out. Women have a embezzle gene in their DNA. I say this from working with thousands of business owners over 35 years
I’m sorry, but we are going to have to start hanging thieves.
There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of having to go to prison.
Taisha? Hmmm? I wonder if she is... Amish!
To be fair this is far to common an occurrence in churches and local sports organizations.
NO SINGLE person should have the power to conduct a financial transaction in ANY of these institutions.
I worked as my church’s financial secretary for several years. And no I did not steal even a penny. But there was no separation of duties; one condition necessary to prevent fraud, mandatory vactions is another.
As financial secretary I collected the offering money after the service, took it home and counted it, recorded the various sources of the offering and deposited the funds on Monday morning. There were no checks and balances.
Time and again we read about these cases-they all have one factor in common-too much trust in the bookkeeper!
Taisha? Hmmm? I wonder if she is... Amish!
To be fair this is far to common an occurrence in churches and local sports organizations.
NO SINGLE person should have the power to conduct a financial transaction in ANY of these institutions.
She was going to pay it back! Sheesh!
Maybe she can use the Hillary Clinton defense and say she didn’t intend to do anything wrong.
We ALWAYS have at least 3 people counting the $$, and double signatures on all checks.
In Illinois we had a GOP county chair who took a huge amount of money from the county, she literally lived in her own head that it was her money.
From reading the article, it looks like she could have some tax issues with a certain government agency as well...
You might want to take that back that kind of behavior is wide spread across every line we can imagine and there is no use slandering potential political allies with something as feeble as that. Now violence and murders that can be broached.
100 percent correct.
Well at least she’ll get conjugal visits.
“We ALWAYS have at least 3 people counting the $$, and double signatures on all checks.”
My wife got burnt from her female employee to the tune of $10k. Now she checks day sheets etc every day.
I actually know a guy who embezzled a million dollars.
Was the Controller of a company where he worked. Had a football betting problem. Had cleaned them out of something like $1.2 mil by the time they caught him.
Did less than 2 yrs. in a Federal minimum security resort prison (the one Martha Stewart was in I think). Is out and back to work as a recruiter recruiting accountants. Is under an order to repay his former employer (yeah, right, like THAT will happen!)
CRIMINALS in all places ALERT!
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
The Law Defends Plunder
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder, and it is of this, no doubt, that Mr. de Montalembert speaks.
This legal plunder may be only an isolated stain among the legislative measures of the people. If so, it is best to wipe it out with a minimum of speeches and denunciations — and in spite of the uproar of the vested interests.
The Law - Frederich Bastiat 1801-1850
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
Her picture leads me to believe that she had to pay someone a whole lot of money to marry her.
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