Posted on 11/16/2011 6:28:58 AM PST by KyGeezer
There was apparently no treasure too small to be plundered.
City Councilman Larry Seabrook’s alleged sales-slip scams included padding the prices on a stack of children’s books — including the classic pirate tale “Treasure Island” — according to evidence presented yesterday at his federal corruption trial.
Five gift receipts that the Bronx Democrat allegedly claimed covered books bought for $25 each were actually for titles that cost just $3.99 apiece, a senior Barnes & Noble employee testified.
José Nario, director of the merchandise system for the bookstore chain, said the five tomes were purchased on June 6, 2006, at a since-closed branch at 675 Sixth Ave.
The other classic titles were “Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” “The Time Machine” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Nario testified in Manhattan US court.
None of the barely legible gift receipts — which Seabrook submitted for reimbursement from his North East Bronx Community Democratic Club — bear the purchase price, although each has a handwritten “$25.00” notation at the top.
But Nario said he was able to use the Barnes & Noble computer system to recreate the original sales slip, down to the identity of the cashier who handled the transaction and the register at which it was made.
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Sherlock Holmes & Watson must have solved the case!
Arrrrgh! Hand over the taxpayer booty and their pieces of eight.
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