Traditionally, embezzlement was fairly easy to recognize. It might involve a disgruntled employee who slipped a few bills out of the till, or an employee who thought no one would notice if some of the company’s product went missing. But in the age of online vendors and automated billing, it may not be as clear… Read More

In 2009, questions began to arise about expenditures by the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Board of Directors. Though there was no hard evidence, allegations were made that two members of the leadership of the SCLC may have engaged in embezzlement and fraudulent misappropriation of funds. There were concerns that the two men had… Read More

A 35-year-old former vice president of banking giant Citigroup Inc. returned from a trip to Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday to learn that there was a warrant out for his arrest. He is accused of one of the largest embezzlement schemes one CPA fraud examiner has ever heard of — involving $19.2 million in bank funds… Read More

Small discrepancies on time sheets over the course of six years have led Gwinnett County police to charge a 60-year-old Buford woman with theft by deception, a form of embezzlement. The woman, who was an office manager at a Norcross telecommunications company, allegedly added unauthorized hours to her time sheets between 2004 and 2010 —… Read More

A 62-year-old woman who has served for 17 years as the Clerk of the Superior Court in Dawson County was charged by federal authorities yesterday with theft, tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud for allegedly taking approximately $134,000 from her job. She also faces state charges of theft by taking, Georgia’s term for embezzlement. Prosecutors allege… Read More

The Georgia Attorney General’s Office has asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to conduct another criminal investigation into a Georgia Tech employee. This time, a professor in the College of Architecture is being investigated for misappropriation of funds or theft by taking, which is Georgia’s term for embezzlement. The man denies doing anything wrong,… Read More

Two former narcotics detectives from Gwinnett County accused of misusing department money intended for undercover investigations. A grand jury handed down an indictment on Wednesday, charging both men with violating the oath of a public officer and theft by taking. One of the men has also been charged with credit card fraud and the other… Read More

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has unanimously rejected a former Alabama insurance company executive’s plea to overturn his embezzlement conviction. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the embezzlement conviction of John Goff, former head of the now-defunct Goff Group, a workers’ compensation insurance firm that supplied coverage in its Alabama home, as… Read More