Prosecutors in Harris County say that an accounts clerk at a Houston-area window coverings company spent nearly $6 million that they say she embezzled from her employer.
She may have cost many of her co-workers their jobs, prosecutors said.
Marcia Sinclair is accused of depositing checks meant for the company into her own account. Prosecutors said she had a $250,000 tab with Neiman Marcus and more than $100,000 at a furniture store. She shopped for clothes in London and had 61 of pairs of designer sunglasses, they said.
Sinclair worked for Gulf Coast Window Covering for 16 years.
She's in custody under a $12 million bond, officials said.
-- Lance Murray
Have a few points to make here:
1. Why was there no yearly audit done by the business owners?
2. They knew her salary, why didn't they question how she was funding her trips and her expensive clothing and shoes she wore to work?
3. Why would they have the person opening the mail posting the accounts receivables checks?
4. How is she affording the expensive law firm to represent her?
Business owner's must have the head's in the sand to not know something was wrong here....
Posted by: TLC | July 09, 2008 at 12:10 PM
I here of this happening alot as a matter of fact I worked with someone that did the same thing only she wasnt caught, she did it to support her gambling habit by the time I found out I was told it was to late to report her.I did however report her to the company
Posted by: lisa | September 06, 2008 at 04:29 AM