Yeah, here’s someone who does embezzlement right!
Go big or go home.
StG
Well, she got it right, except for the getting caught bit. I would have secretly moved the money overseas, quietly retired and then openly left the country.
Good point. I used to date a girl whose parents were from Hot Springs and they were… well, reactionary would be putting it mildly.
Equally astonishing is the 1930s payoff methods. Money in a pie box? What, is she the warden at Shawshank?
Seventy five grand is a little better.
A link to her resignation.
Many years ago I used to teach Principles of Banking to new bank employees. I always told them, "When you deal with money - whether it’s paper currency or bookkeeping entries - it’s easy to steal. Usually takes a long time before anyone catches on. But they will catch on and you will eventually get caught. So as long as you are willing to give up your job, your good name, your family life, etc., go ahead and dip into the till. Just remember the price you are going to pay.
Yea, but I’m too cool to get caught.
Is it just me or does anyone else see a huge difference between taking a bribe, and working (and being paid) for working overtime?
I actually saw this in the paper the day before the FBI reported how they had caught her. I sat there trying to think how they could have done it, yet it never crossed my mind that, in the middle of a freaking investigation, she would be stupid enough to go ahead and take a bribe.
When someone pulls those kinds of hours, there is often suspicion that some of the overtime may have been faked.
That article mentioned that the one officer in Little Rock had almost 3,000 hours of overtime. Adding that to the 2,000 hours for a normal work schedule, that means she worked about 5,000 hours in a year, or about 13 hours every day of the year. Is that plausible? I don’t see how it’s possible to do so.
It’s rough but definitely possible. I’ve worked periods of much more work than that.
A whole year of thirteen hour days?
Right- a whole year of 13 hr days every single day? When counting only regular 5-day workweeks that turns into 20 hr days being the norm.
Read for detail people.
Go back and re-read the article. The time period was more than 1 year.
the article has a date of April 15 so we are talking not 12 months, but rather 16 months and 1 week.
This is going to change your hours per day and total hour calculations substantially.
The story broke her two or three months ago. 
Not so much the cookie jar… more the pie box.
The latest: Shoffner instead claimed that the payment, and all previous payments, were for her famous meat pies made from Arkansas residents who failed to pay their taxes.
The Onion it is not.