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Saturday, August 26, 2006
Posted
8:33 PM
by Susan Darst Williams
IMPLICATES SELF IN THEFT OF NEARLY $27,000
School parent-teacher groups have come a long way from bake sales:
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2006/08/26/local/doc44ef79c6cf74e445613460.txt
Want to bet that gambling was involved? So sad.
Hope this incident reminds school-related groups, and school employees, too, for that matter, to always require two signatures for checks withdrawing entrusted funds over, say, $50. Also a must: much more regular accounting reports to PTO leadership. Make sure more than one set of hands and eyes are shepherding the money, and keep on top of things. Note that this embezzlement took place over more than six months. That should never be.
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