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Post by xtra on Jan 24, 2009 23:42:47 GMT -6
steal 13 dollar book go to jail..
steal hundreds of millions maybe billions, nothing..
Unreturned library book leads to woman's arrest The Associated Press Posted: 01/24/2009 12:42:54 PM MST Updated: 01/24/2009 12:42:55 PM MST
INDEPENDENCE, Iowa—An Iowa woman has been arrested because she failed to return a library book.
Thirty-nine-year-old Shelly Koontz was arrested Thursday night on a fifth-degree theft charge. She is accused of keeping "The Freedom Writers Diary," which she checked out from the public library in nearby Jesup in April.
Police say the book—which is about a high school teacher's effort to inspire students to write—is valued at $13.95.
Court records show library employees tried repeatedly to contact Koontz by phone and mail. A police officer even visited her home last September.
Officials at the Buchanan County jail say Koontz was released after posting $250 bond. No telephone listing for Koontz could be found in the Independence area.
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Post by graybeard on Jan 25, 2009 7:58:27 GMT -6
Had I been the cop, I would have pulled $13 out of my pocket.
GB
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Post by judes on Jan 25, 2009 13:34:06 GMT -6
and yet Madeoff relaxes in his luxury penthouse......... ugh
it appears these poor CEO's need our help: funny
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Post by xtra on Feb 26, 2009 11:21:56 GMT -6
www.republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=news.article&articleID=3499MORE FRAUD ON WALL STREET Posted On: February 26th, 2009 Source: New York Times For two decades, Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh looked like Wall Street wizards. Their supposed investment prowess lured hundreds of millions of dollars from public pension funds and universities and earned the two lavish trappings of success: stately homes, a stake in the New York Islanders and, for Mr. Greenwood, a horse farm that once belonged to Paul Newman. But on Wednesday morning, federal agents arrested the two money managers on accusations filed by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York in what has become all too familiar on Wall Street: Their investment fund was in fact a $667 million fraud — a small-scale version of the $50 billion fraud that Bernard L. Madoff is suspected of orchestrating. But unlike Mr. Madoff, who is accused of masterminding a global Ponzi scheme, Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Walsh simply stole their investors’ money, the authorities said. Their two firms, the WG Trading Company and Westridge Capital, misappropriated funds from a host of deep-pocketed investors, including state and city pension funds, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
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