Um. You need to read that quote again. I was offered money by someone else. They wanted ME to work on THEIR porn film.
Why would I need to pay them?
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Anyone has a right not to have the government snoop into his private financial dealings but no one has a right to a job as a public employee. If you want to be a public employee you cede certain rights regarding the privacy of your financial affairs.
Here is a samplelaw on financial disclosure by public official and employees in Pennsylvania. Other jurisdictions, such as the federal government, have similar laws.
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Para. 1105 is a list of the required contents of the disclosure.
BTW, they have recounted the money and the confiscated amount increased by over another million.
That’s interesting. Maybe someone had his regrets and returned his cut of the loot?
Ha! We have some Federales amongst the Dopers, apparently…
The extra money was in Mexican currency, 17 million plus pesos.
The one time I was in Mexico (in a border town, where both currencies would be common), the stores used slightly different symbols for the two. One of them had two vertical bars, the other had only one. I can’t remember which was which, though.
Cite? 
less hijacking…
Wow, ignorance fought, I was always of the “U and S” camp.
I don’t think her relatives would agree. That’s just plain bad.
One interesting thing about Mexican law is that the statute of limitations on corruption, or what they call Illicit Income, is very short- less than a year, I think. About 200 meters from my front door, a particularly well-known corrupt politician (a tautology if there ever was one) has built a huge mansion, with an olympic size swimming pool, a tennis court with stadium lights, a bunch of outbuildings and gazebos and so on, which is sitting empty until he can’t be prosecuted. (Maybe they’ll pave the road leading past my house on his ticket). Also cops living way above their purported income is so common that the converse, like my born-again-Christian compadre/ex chief of police, is an object of somewhat disdainful curiosity to other cops because he doesn’t wear a Rolex and drive a Lincoln Navigator. Maybe the cops who took part in the above-described bust didn’t fill every suitcase, pocket, and car trunk with whatever they could carry, but no one in Mexico is going to believe they didn’t.
I doubt she had any relatives - or none that were close
It’s still stealing from those who didn’t even ask them to do the job.
They took a job based on the duties and the pay. Do it. The relatives are owed the money. Period.
[QUOTE=David Simmons]
Anyone has a right not to have the government snoop into his private financial dealings but no one has a right to a job as a public employee. If you want to be a public employee you cede certain rights regarding the privacy of your financial affairs.
(All my comments are in terms of the US, and to the best of my knowledge)
Being a civil servant doesn't mean that you forfeit your rights as a citizen. You are correct in saying that you cede some rights in regard to privacy, but those are (in most cases) rights pertaining to background investigations - you must grant the government permission to research your criminal history without reason; likewise your driving record, tax record, and pretty much any other record on record :) . But once you are an employee of the government, you have the same privacy rights as everyone else (unless you fall into a certain category exempted from that).
If you're involved in stealing money from a company, then you are also stealing money from the government by proxy.
Uncle Sam doesn't tolerate thievery because whenever you steal money, you're stealing from Sam.