Ariana Thompson-Bell has been sentenced to 27 months in prison after stealing just under $500,000 from her employer, a Hamilton-based work skills programme.
Over two years, she redirected legitimate business payments into her personal accounts and her daughter’s, spending most of the money on fast food and clothing.
The name of the employer has been suppressed.
Despite claiming remorse and repaying about $66,000—with help from her mother—Judge Tini Clark described the offending as driven by greed, rejecting arguments for home detention and calling the theft a “warped sense of entitlement.” The full amount is unlikely to be recovered.
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This is why employers are now subscribing to second-party entities such as Zero, etc. to handle their books and transactions, thus by-passing dishonest employees who feel ‘entitled’ to steal. Outgoing expenses vs intake should always balance.
In a way maybe it’s good that they did purchase genetically-altered and DNA contaminated glyphosate sprayed ‘fast food’…it means that their lives are now shortened.
But, feeling ‘entitled’ they were probably one of the first to line-up for Covid vaccines, thinking that they should be the first ones in line.
The stealing, thefts, burglaries and robberies are a sign that this economy is now making profit for only the select few of New Zealand’s elite.
I would like to see the PERSONAL investment portfolios of each Nazional Party cabinet member, whilst looking for third and fourth party money flows.
The farmers need to openly rebel against the stifling regulations that are bankrupting them, and the insurance industry needs to be criminally investigated, just as the Banks have been, but yet nothing comes of the final judgement entries and solutions and public outcomes.