Apparently my wifes friend was being abused and told her husband that she was leaving him.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

The best friend of one on my best friend's brother, a guy who I sort of knew because I grew up in a small town, was very quiet and unassuming, maybe on the spectrum to some degree. Anyway he was really close to my best friend's family. I don't know if he was an accountant or what, but got a job after college where he was the financial guy for a branch of a Southern States Farm supply store. He ended up getting caught stealing all kinds of money from them. He had set up fake companies and had the company who's finances he was in charge of paying them. I don't know how he got caught, but he got prison time.

One of my other best friends has a small engineering company and they caught a secretary stealing several thousand dollars from them.

A guy who I have known since elementary school has gotten himself in a lot of trouble and served time in jail throughout the years. Some years ago he attempted to murder his girlfriend is back in prison for a very long time. For as friendly and silly he is, I would have expected him to serve life in jail for being a big time drug kingpin, not for attempted murder,

I was very good friends with the guy who was arrested for the biggest cocaine bust in Paraguay. I understand people do shit to survive but transporting 5000 lbs of cocaine is beyond bad.

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DISH is how we do it.

This guy tied her up naked for most of a morning, I think there was sex involved, who knows what was going on, possibly with her trying anything and everything to get out of the situation, but at some point he strangled her.

Seems like just about every (rare) murder that happens around here is a guy killing a woman related to a relationship gone bad.

this happened ages ago, and again not approaching murder or trafficking (so many murders!) . . .

our neighbor's daughter was getting married that day, the wedding and reception to be at the family's house. My parents were going that afternoon.

all morning long we heard screams from the house, banshee. Then the wedding happened, reception. The next day, it was annulled.

-- the groom turned out to be a bigamist, he had a whole other family. The detective had come through that morning.

I still have no clue why the family went through with the whole shebang anyway.

imagine being that girl

You just reminded me, a guy I knew (he was the husband of one of my wife's friends/co-workers) got busted for doing the same thing at a small local electrical supply company he was in charge of finance for - fake companies, invoices, checks etc. Very active in his community- volunteer firefighter, local councilman, Republican committeeman, was a shoe-in to become a district judge, but (based on what I assumed he would be making at his job, and having a really good idea what his wife made because she worked with my wife) it always seemed like they were living way above their means.
Turns out they were - to the tune of $3m. Spent it on vacations, renting beach houses for the summer, and putting a ton of money into their relatively modest house. The theft caused 18 layoffs at the company he ripped off.
His wife divorced him right around when the shit hit the fan and claimed to have had no knowledge of his crime, but I'd be surprised if she couldn't have seen the discrepancy between their incomes and their spending/lifestyle.
I think he got 4-11 years, not sure how much of that he actually served.

Amerisave?

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~Brad

Wells Fargo.

Too bad Duffy still isn't around. He would have had lots of stories. True or not. Not sure

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

When I had my own construction company, a client wanted audited Financials from me as a condition of doing work for them.

I told my bookkeeper we were going to be audited.

About an hour later, she comes into my office and tells me she's been overpaying herself. It was $3k.

I told her she had a week to come up with a repayment plan or get fired. She didn't do it so let her go and then I told her she had a month to get me repaid.
A couple days later and I get the unemployment. The workforce commission worked by fax only so I offered to fax 50 pages of documentation as to why she shouldn't get unemployment. They said I needed a police report.

So instead of repaying me as requested, she got a jail time felony plus a legal order to repay me.

When doing a school remodel job, I had to do background checks on my employees. Out of 11, 6 had felonies and 3 of them were violent felonies.
I clearly remember sitting in my office and wondering what had I done. I don't miss having my own business.

Don't be too hard on yourself. It's possible your message was the straw that broke the camel's back - perhaps there were other incidents. That actually seems likely.

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

 

I'm pretty sure we're both in academia. Our work study students in similar positions don't do laundry. What on earth are your work study students washing?

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Physical Therapy department, so sheets, towels, pillow cases, hospital gowns.

Wow, this reminds me of one of my wife's students. He was with a group of kids that broke into a house, he left the house and the other kids killed the owner. Since he was with them he was convicted of murder and is still in prison. One of his first letters he wrote after his conviction was to my wife and he apologized for letting her down.

She says he was a pretty good kid but got caught up in the wrong crowd and didn't have much family support.

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TEAM HD
Each day is what you make of it so make it the best day possible.

As I was reading down through your post I was thinking the same thing.

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TEAM HD
Each day is what you make of it so make it the best day possible.

A high school friend was disbarred and convicted of tax evasion. A college classmate was once the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Ahh, just sounded almost exactly my experience with Amerisave ;)

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~Brad

I'm the same but not because we led boring lives. We just hung around with boring people.

 

Okay, that makes sense. I was starting to envision you as a university president who always needed suit coats ready to go, like a Wall Street guy!

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

I had a pretty close business associate that started his own business. It grew, went public, and pretty soon he was worth $500 million. He cashed out a bunch. Spent it on insane parties, jets, etc. Within a couple years the company was bankrupted. Lots of ordinary investors lost millions. He should have gone to prison but this was in the early 2000's so there were lots like him. Too many for the SEC to go after.

He died of a heart attack. The rumor I heard is he was having sex with his mistress and he had a heart attack (Too much blow). She panicked and instead of calling 911 she just left.