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“It’s not Rizzo.

The big question is, what city is next?”

Rizzo and his cronies were fairly open and brazen, almost challenging folks to catch them.

There are many accounting controls which private industry (and non-profits) use regularly.

Governments should and probably also use such tools, but anthing can be skirted, with enough inside cooperation.

I was VP Finance of a 100 employee Engineering firm, and we had a bookkeeping clerk who embezzled over $500,000 in less than two years, through two CFO terms.

Caught him on my watch (not me). He liked drugs, and started small, got away with it, moved up to buying a Corvette, under the cover story his family was rich, etc.

But his system wasn’t perfect. He did prison time, got out, went back for possession/dealing drugs.

I had jogged with him at lunch, and I was concerned they might think I was in on it. But I was not, and I testified in open court against him.

Pissed me off big time that he forged my signature.