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Woman facing life in prison for $1.2M embezzlement kills herself in front of Walmart
Fox News ^ | May 5, 10`18 | By Kathleen Joyce

Posted on 05/05/2018 12:53:59 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie

A Texas woman shot and killed herself in front of a Walmart on Wednesday just hours before she was slated to be sentenced for embezzling $1.2 million.

Paige Moody Bisher, 43, of Spring, Texas, was facing up to life in prison after admitting to stealing $1.2 million from a small Houston company, where she was employed as a part-time administrative assistant, the Houston Chronicle reported.

Bisher admitted to embezzling the money in January and was slated to be sentenced by District Judge Nikita Harmon on Wednesday. Prosecutor Lester Blizzard said he was “planning on asking for a lengthy prison sentence for the first-degree felony theft of more than $300,000,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

If you’re gonna steal a million bucks from your workplace, have the sense to skip the country like they do in the movies.

Sheesh.


21 posted on 05/05/2018 2:21:50 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
What kind of company is run such that a part-time administrative assistant can embezzle that much?

Usually you have to be at least a book keeper to steal that amount.

22 posted on 05/05/2018 2:33:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!! Or maybe midgets....)
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To: BobL
"Only one way out, for a person like her."Hopefully there will be more following her lead.
23 posted on 05/05/2018 2:39:20 PM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: Emmett McCarthy

“”Ken Lay did the same thing which kept his estate intact for his wife and children.””

Wasn’t the cause of his death announced as a massive heart attack? How did you come up with suicide?


24 posted on 05/05/2018 2:57:45 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Emmett McCarthy

the irs cannot come after the estate?


25 posted on 05/05/2018 3:07:48 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

In most states murderers don’t even get anywhere near a life sentence.


26 posted on 05/05/2018 3:11:08 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Did she have to ruin Walmart shoppers’ day?


27 posted on 05/05/2018 3:22:54 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

To bad her name wasn’t Hilary clinton


28 posted on 05/05/2018 3:23:12 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Emmett McCarthy
She was not sentenced which means she did not die as a convicted felon.

Wrong.

29 posted on 05/05/2018 3:24:21 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: livius
She was totally screwed up, had been a good employee, and possibly somebody else was manipulating her to steal the money.

$300k is enough to put a lot of small businesses under. She risked destroying a lot of lives, and then was too cowardly to accept responsibility for her actions.

What I wonder is why you'd try to make up excuses for her. "possibly someone else" "totally screwed up" "had been a good employee" OK, I'll accept that your definition of a good employee and mine will never overlap.

30 posted on 05/05/2018 3:37:24 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35; Emmett McCarthy

My apologies. I see now (not in this story, had to click through this link to a link to the Chronicle) that the prosecutor is going to dismiss the charges which could work to void the conviction and clear her record (and make it much harder for the victim to try to recover from her estate).


31 posted on 05/05/2018 3:39:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Moonman62

I had questionable about his cause of death. There were conflicting reports and I remembered the wrong one.


32 posted on 05/05/2018 4:15:18 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: joethedrummer

Hey at least she didn’t check into the Bates Motel.


33 posted on 05/05/2018 4:32:59 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

I wonder if Janet Leigh got a full paycheck for her role in that movie.


34 posted on 05/05/2018 4:36:01 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Sad. Even if she had gotten away with it in this life it would have caught up to her in the next.

And life in prison would have at least cancelled the earthly debt before she would have checked out.

And maybe she could have learned to do some good deeds behind the bars.

All kinds of reasons to live, but she chose a one-way door to the dead. She couldn’t even take the cash with her.

And in front of Wal-Mart? How many people including children did she traumatize for life? As if she didn’t have enough to ‘explain’ already.


35 posted on 05/05/2018 4:37:08 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: livius

As another poster said, fate is sealed upon death, but prayers for her grieving family would be good.


36 posted on 05/05/2018 8:16:53 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Emmett McCarthy

Sentencing happens after conviction.....are you sure she wasn’t already a convicted felon?


37 posted on 05/06/2018 3:51:19 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: SVTCobra03

Christ is all about Mercy. Salvation is by Grace alone, not through anything that we do or don’t do.


38 posted on 05/06/2018 5:17:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I'm surprised that nobody picked up on the thing most wrong about this story.

She admitted to her crime in January and here it is May and she was still walking around free.

Can anybody explain to me why it takes four months for a judge to sentence somebody who admitted to her crimes? Even worse, how is she allowed to go free? After admitting she was guilty!

Back in January, she should have been handcuffed and marched off to jail immediately upon admitting her crime. It should have taken a judge no more than 10 minutes to come up with a sentence that fit said crimes.

Had that been done, she'd likely be alive today.

39 posted on 05/06/2018 5:27:45 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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