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No Charges: Virginia City Official Collected Salary for 12 Years Sitting at Home

After the FBI, state and local police were called in to investigate how one Norfolk, Va., city worker could have possibly continued to collect salary and benefits for 12 years without showing up for a single day of work, officials have decided no criminal charges will be filed.

Jill McGlone had worked for the Norfolk Community Services Board (CSB) for 12 years as an office assistant before she was involved in an internal personnel investigation in 1998. The CSB is an independent agency created by the state and funded with state and federal tax dollars.

At the time of the investigation, McGlone was put on paid leave but her case was never revisited and she continued to collect her full $29,000/year salary and benefits.

For the next 12 years, someone — investigators have not been able to identify who –at the CSB agency submitted completed time sheets for McGlone, indicating that she had worked. While she never reported for work, McGlone’s salary continued to rise with cost-of-living adjustments and across-the-board wage hikes. No employee evaluations were ever conducted and she was enrolled annually for continuing employee benefits.

Months after the discrepancy was uncovered last May, four CSB executives and an assistant were fired or forced to resign in September. Also at that time, Maureen Woman, the CSB’s executive director turned over its internal investigation to state and federal officials.

Womack was appointed to her position in early 2009, replacing George Pratt, who retired. While Womack offered few details of the scheme, Pratt told the The Virginian-Pilot that while not familiar with the details of the case, he “cannot imagine how something like this could occur.”

“Every employee has a performance evaluation every year, and their increases or any changes are based on that,” Pratt said.

Womack said she stumbled upon McGlone’s payroll by accident while examining personnel sheets and realized she had never heard of McGlone after leading the agency for more than a year.

Now, sources say state officials do not plan to pursue criminal charges of any kind, despite McGlone collecting about $320,000 in city funds over the past 12 years, seemingly with help from someone inside the agency.

According to the Pilot, police found no evidence of wrongdoing by McGlone. Additionally, police learned that McGlone actually attempted to return to work after her suspension in 1998, but was told to remain at home.

Additionally, the former CSB employees who were fired surrounding the incident will likely also not face any charges.

“There’s a difference between being stupid and doing something criminal,” source familiar with the investigation told the Pilot.

State attorney Greg Underwood is expected to announce his final decision in February. In the meantime, a Norfolk city councilman says he’s not surprised there will be no charges in the case.

“I was always of the belief that [McGlone] was not going to be prosecuted because she was suspended and was waiting for the Community Services Board to act,” he said. “If they dropped the ball, that was on them,” Councilman Paul Riddick said.

While the state’s investigation of McGlone is ending, the FBI is reportedly continuing with an independent investigation of its own since a good portion of McGlone’s salary was paid using federal money, city officials say. However, it is not known when the FBI’s investigation will be complete.

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  • wwwjr
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 2:35am

    First, She must have been a public schools teacher.

    Second, if this is such a bad thing why is it being done AGAIN, immediate with the same people involved. “What” you say? Why is the FBI turning around and running a second investigation. Was the first one incompetent, or is it just that the whole theory of government is incompetent. Whoever, Mr. Holder, is allowing more tax dollars to be wasted on a second investigation should be fired also.

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  • therationalist
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 2:15am

    Hello. . . . this is why we support small government . . . . corruption!! When will we ever learn?!

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  • wildbillsooner74
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:36am

    The employee got by with it and it is funny as heck! She came back to go to work and was told to go home and wait. Well if they are that stupid at all levels at budget and finance, more power to her!
    Then here comes the FBI what another joke! Rumsfeld told the FBI and America there is 3 trillion missing and nobody knows where it is! If the FBI cannot find out what happened to the 3 trillion and all the waste, Fraud and corruption that goes on in the Beltway what makes you think they will ever solve the where and the why of this one! I will bet anybody some Senators, Bureaucrats, and House members put that much in their pockets everyday through kick backs under the table and in foreign banks! FBI is the protecter of the elite in the Beltway no matter what crime they commit. The lady may have something on someone but the FBI is looking the other way when it comes to taking down and elite individual so they have to let her go!

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  • Workforit
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:29am

    Twelve years? Sounds like she had the goods on somebody… My guess somebody in upper management… Payroll, annual reviews, and the like? Is she hot? Did she have a kid? Out of wedlock? A picture might clear up a ton of questions… Was she disabled and couldn’t work? What did she do with the money? Did she give it to charity, the union? The Democratic Party?

    Sounds like the world will never know…

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  • BruceB
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:20am

    No charges.America just died.I guess it ok to talk about over throwing the government now.

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  • ChicagosMonster
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:08am

    Sign me the F up!!!!! No, wait, nevermind – I have something called a conscience.

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  • Fina Biscotti
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:46am

    You best believe she was paying kickbacks to someone in that office….who was filling out time sheets and evaluations.

    How can a person be evaluated…..when they are not on the job……and are not performing a job?

    Investigators are perpetuating a cover-up……whether she was “suspended” or not…..and still on the payroll……is not the issue. Someone was submitting BOGUS paperwork on her behalf…..to defraud their city government….for this woman to get a check…..for 12 yrs.

    Whatever was the internal problem that had this woman “suspended”….needs to also be investigsted…..especially since it was.claimed she was told to wait at home when she allegedly tried to go back to work……adds more to this scandal…..bc it appears receiving a payroll check for keeping quiet for 12 yrs = payoffs…..and PAYOFFS being arranged = free money……always involves KICKBACKS.

    There was something bigger that was discovered….in this investigation……and is why no one involved in creating phony paperwork = Fraud…..for 12 years……is being charged.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:43am

    Kind of like the farmers getting paid not to grow crops wouldn’t you say?

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  • Grandpa's Attic
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:40am

    I have a novel Idea…Jeepers, How about quitting all the complaining about this lady and put her to work in the fraud/crimes division to look for loop-holes in the system that she obviously knows about…turn a bad situation in to a positive one. (turning the frowns upside down)

    Complaining gets us nowhere, give me a solution..

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  • lillianrose
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:34am

    Reminds me of how certain criminal teachers (belonging to unions) are still on the payroll to sit (not teach) for years doing nothing.

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  • cstcomputers
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:24am

    Compare this to the recent story of the Major League Pitcher who quit because he said he cannot continue to collect pay for something he doesn’t do. He said he did not deserve it. This woman did not deserve her pay and those involved should be prosecuted, maybe not her because she was doing what she was told but those involved should be put in jail.

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  • civilunrestnow
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:21am

    This should be easy to solve. Find the person who was responsible for the yearly reviews and in all likelihood, you have the person who was submitting time cards.

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  • Enuff Zenuff
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:17am

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    “There’s a difference between being stupid and doing something criminal,” a source familiar with the investigation told the Pilot.”

    Yes, I agree. That’s why Bill Clinton got off whereas Pelosi & the Congressional Democrats need to be prosecuted for violating their oath of office to follow the constitution.

    When Detroit’s corrupt mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was sent off to jail, people wised up and elected a new mayor with some common sense… The first thing he did was tell the treasurer NOT to mail out any paychecks. Instead, he made everyone pick up their paychecks in person and sign for them – WITH ID. There were hundreds of paychecks never picked up and thus were dropped from the rolls! – I think the majority had “worked” for the school system. It would be a good practice if every government employee was required to do this at least once a year. Better yet, let’s just lay off half of them immediately and then begin the easy task of figuring out where best to cut some more.

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 5:58am

      Glad that slimey mayor of Detroit finally went to prison.

      Great story about the new Mayor for Detroit……not to mail out payroll checks…have everyone come pick up their checks and show ID.

      Great idea to cut the Gravy Train of Corruption….real short…..real fast.

      Should New Orleans have been so lucky. The Morial dynasty has been in the coffers of every agency and department…..including the New Orleans Public School System…..w the mayor’s aunt being discovered to be on the New Orleans Public School payroll under her maiden name, collecting over $300,000.00 when caught……having everyone wonder if bank officisls were involved in this scam……along w the city employees…..and school board members; several “teachers” $till on the payroll out on sick leave….some for 16 yrs.. wo ever having a medical evaluation; 10 yrs wo ever walking into a classroom……or having an actual evaluation of their job performances, etc…..jeopardizing the education of children in the public school system….since only so many teachers can be carried on the payroll…..whether they are “teaching” in the classroom or not; the morial uncle headed up the RTA (Regional Transit Authority) placed in position…decades earlier… by Morial’s father as mayor of New Orleans, ..was caught embezzling $500,000.00 in just one incident…placing $350,000.00 of it in his personal account on the same day of the theft….clearly indicating how comfortable the uncle was…..in his embezzlement schemes……that was suspected of going on the entire time he held that political appointment….but only was charged w one incident of $500,000.00. Case closed on all other embezzlements…..sad.

      Since the corruption was an open secret, and much more could have been discovered in the investigations……and was expected………that could have indicted the Mayor of New Orleans ….and other people in his administration…..the investigations were closed down…..bc as one investigator mentioned….everyone being investigated were of the black community.

      Marc Morial left town…..after not being able to change the City Charter….to have more than two terms in office…..as mayor.

      It was placed to the voters of New Orleans, who had had enough of the Morial family…..father and son had already carried the title of Mayor of New Orleans for sixteen years….and refused to accommodate their corruption any longer, by voting against changing the City Charter….to not allow Marc Morial to have a Third Term…..although New Orleans is 70% black.

      After leaving New Orleans, Marc Morial became head of the Urban League…..w education, housing and healthcare…..as his stated platform….. for blacks and minorities = all the things he ignored when Mayor of New Orleans.

      Morial, sharpton, jackson = three stooges as poverty pimps.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:12am

    “Somebody” in the local office made sure that this woman continued to receive her salary and benefits. The question is why?

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:20am

      I find it difficult to believe that she wasn’t paying someone off – or else had a relative on the inside. No one would file all those false timesheets & evaluations for twelve years without some payoff.

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    • butler180
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:46am

      Right on, right on

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  • neiman1
    Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:04am

    Most important is the executives fired or forced to retire were still given their full retirement … Just a finger in the nose to the taxpayers, AGAIN

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  • BlazingBlonde
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:56pm

    This is the price we pay for having gone to sleep for generations. We were trusted with an amazing document to hold dear, and look at what we have made with it.. Ugh. this dumb beast is a part of the cog.. How about we the tax payers press the case. Any lawyers (ugh x 2) around to tell us a class action against this egregious waste is worth a press, or a waste of time…
    Bell CA, this and others are just a tip of a taxpayer rip off iceburg.

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  • FoundersRedPill
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:45pm

    Why didn‘t they just transfer her to the pentagon as Monica Lewinsky’s cheif of staff?

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:34pm

    I kinda wanna go to sleep now . Come back soon Lord Jesus. Amen

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    • kkfedup
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:12am

      Amen, we have messed up His creation so badly. Egypt is the tip of the iceberg….

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  • luvtheright
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:30pm

    When you think you’ve heard it all, there’s always another story (scam) where the TAXPAYERS seemed to get screwed again! What has happened to “HONESTY & INTEGRITY” in our country?

    GOD HELP US!!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:02pm

    We Had a Senator like that in North Carolina.Elected him and he never went to work.John Edwards.

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:02pm

    Why do bread companies put the twist ties on counter clockwise. They fool me every time

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:16pm

      I could tell you but ……….then…… (oh what the hell) then I’d have to kill ya!

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:31pm

      Why do bread companies put the twist ties on counter clockwise.
      ———-
      The same reason why the letters G and O are pronounced ‘go’
      and
      the letters T and O are pronounced ‘to’

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 1:13am

      82DAIRBORNE
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:16pm
      I could tell you but ……….then…… (oh what the hell) then I’d have to kill ya!
      _________________________________________________
      Excuse me 82DAIRBORNE but CNN called & according to their new standards your post is offensive :)

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  • DUMBASPELOSI
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:01pm

    This “government model” may be the most corrupt and out of control industry we have.

    The level of waste in the local, state and national budgets are so bad that Enron looks like a
    insufficient funds check.

    It’s time to hold the fire to these lazy, greedy, selfish morons. They have the sense of entitlement and no sense of public service.

    It’s time for a voters revolution.

    P.S. – I would gladly trade Palin for Obama. Let Obama go out and shoot moose – give Sarah a try.
    Barack is so inept that while gas prices go up a dollar in the next month – and 1,000 in Egypt are killed in that “vacuum of leadership” – he is going to focus on fundraising for his 2012 run. Thanks again to all you liberals who made this deal happen.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:37am

      “The level of waste in the local, state and national budgets are so bad that Enron looks like a
      insufficient funds check.”

      Amen brother. Let me tell you a short story… Over the past year our state highway dept has been re-paving all the bridge over-passes on a busy highway that goes through 1/3rd of the state. I don‘t know the exact number but it’s at least 30 over-passes. One day I was having lunch in a local eating establishment just off the highway. A stranger next to me had a highway dept patch on his work uniform so I struck up a conversation. It turned out that he was one of the Supervisors on the re-paving project. This is what I learned in the conversation. All these overpasses had to be done before winter temps got too low so they had a deadline. He laughed about the deadline because next spring they had to come back to the area and start re-building some of the overpasses because the DOT had done inspections on them and found them to unsafe. Concrete and some of the iron used had basically gone bad and are in danger of collapsing. He said so far he knew of 7 of the overpasses that needed serious re-hab. These 7 overpasses just got re-paved for nothing because they will be coming back in the spring to jack-hammer all that new concrete off of the bridges so they can be fixed. The kicker is… the state knew about this prior to giving the go-ahead for the re-paving. The state knew they would be throwing away millions of dollars, but nobody seemed to care.

      When I asked the guy if someone just screwed-up, he just laughed and said… “No not at all, somebody got an envelope of money somewhere in order for this to have happened.” Come to think of it, he’s probably 110% on target!

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  • trekcyclist22
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:01pm

    “According to the Pilot, police found no evidence of wrongdoing by McGlone.”

    WHAT! She didn’t show up for work, she knew she had a position there and she got a check! isn’t that “wrongdoing”? WOW!

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:11pm

      Nope. Not when you are told to go home. Unless she was giving a kickback to someone in the offie I’d say she is innocent. At least one “someone” in the office needs to go to jail!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:00am

      This happened to many in the Army back in the 60‘s and 70’s. Go home and await further orders. At least 300 that I know about. Many spent their entire hitch trying to get an assignment.
      I suspect that the person doing the paper work was just doing it out of habit. I once knew a clerk that every Friday generated a report of how many copies were made on a copy machine. Only problem was the copy machine had been gone over 5 years. The people upstairs were just throwing it in the garbage since it was always zero.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:56pm

    McGlone hadn’t done anything wrong. She tried to come back to work and they told her to go home and wait. She did what she was told. It‘s too bad that the morons who kept paying her can’t be forced to pay her salary while she was sitting at home.

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    • beebacksoon
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:00pm

      Not real news, so I’m already bored.

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    • Goldlady
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:01pm

      Nothing wrong? Personal integrity is just that.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:06pm

      For the next 12 years, someone — investigators have not been able to identify who –at the CSB agency submitted completed time sheets for McGlone, indicating that she had worked. While she never reported for work, McGlone’s salary continued to rise with cost-of-living adjustments and across-the-board wage hikes. No employee evaluations were ever conducted and she was enrolled annually for continuing employee benefits.

      —————-

      Awwwww……..can’t wait for people like these to run Obama-scare and death-panels

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:20pm

      For every McGlone there are thousands of others yet to be discovered.

      We the enslaved American taxpayer want off of Uncle Sam’s Plantation.

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Are they hiring ??????????????????
      I would love to take a 12 years paid vacation .

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    • GeauxAlready
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:26pm

      Racist just Racist…………

      SpankDaMonkey  
    • broker0101
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:32pm

      At least now Ms. McGlone will be able to draw Unemployment Benefits for a couple years. Thank goodness for our country’s financial safety net!

      broker0101  
    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:42pm

      No I know where Office Space got Milton’s situation from, I guess the Bob’s fixed the Glitch.

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    • taxed
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:54pm

      @RFI

      She knew what she was doing is wrong. Just because money is laying on the sidewalk does not make it yours. She knew she was being paid to do nothing. That is wrong, and everyone involved should be in trouble.

      http://conservativepoliticalforum.com

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:19am

      Why is this news .. the UAW and auto companies do this all the time … lots of UAW workers getting paid and benifits and not working.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 12:22am

      Goldlady
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:01pm
      “Nothing wrong? Personal integrity is just that.”

      Thank you. Personal integrity is hard to find in todays world.

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    • Bengal68
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:34am

      sorry but your wrong.

      “Norfolk City Hall confirmed Community Services Board Worker Jill McGlone was disciplined in 1998 for divulging private information about a patient’s medical condition.?

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:52am

      @taxed

      Perhaps she was smart enough to use the new TPS report cover sheet so no one suspected any problem?

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    • ANTISOCIAL-IST
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:05am

      she received a salary for 12 years without working, regardless of whether she was “suspended” or whatever. personal accountability, ever heard of it? just like the people i see running stop signs every day because they know there are NEVER police in the area. hey, if you ain’t gonna get caught, go for it. what a joke!

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:56pm

    Nothing stupid about keeping your mouth shut.

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    • LRC
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:04am

      Maybe not stupid, but very immoral.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:08am

      320K…no big deal. When hyperinflation hits that will be enough to buy a sandwich..

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    • MrObvious
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:00am

      I wonder if she was originally suspended after discovering a discrepancy of some kind and this extended paid suspension was, perhaps, someone’s way of keeping her quiet?

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:43am

      LRC In today moralless society nothing is considered immoral. Lie, cheat, steal seems to mean nothing. Grab what you can while no one is looking seems to be the norm. Through out history the loss of morals is a precursor to collapse of gov’t. EVERY SINGLE TIME!

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    • ME
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 9:51am

      If only private citizens could steal without being prosecuted (yes steal she did not earn it) It’s good to be king or at least work for him

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:02am

      Ho does one go about getting one of these dream jobs? Oh, thats right its called unemployment now.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 10:23am

      Hey, what’s one more on the payroll? Only very immoral people would take advantage of this. She’ll pay, perhaps not in our lifetime, but she will pay. Wonder if she filed for taxes with IRS? Surely, someone was in cahoots with her. In 12 years you’d expect a review, pay raise etc. Hmmmm?
      Sounds like Chicago style corruption.

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    • ANTISOCIAL-IST
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 11:01am

      isn’t it against the law if you find a bag of money which fell from an armoured truck and not return it? i think it’s called theft.

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 4:33pm

      What a load of crap …

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    • *************************
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:31pm

      “cannot imagine how something like this could occur.”
      “former CSB employees who were fired surrounding the incident will likely also not face any charges.”
      “There’s a difference between being stupid and doing something criminal”

      Fire/arrest/try the criminals/idiots involved! (That’s right, if you’re driving the robbery get-away car, even if you don‘t know it’s a robbery get-away car, you are an accomplice to the crime.)

      “Mongo only pawn … in game of life.” -Mongo, Blazing Saddles

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    • Passive Avenger
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 8:15pm

      “Nothing stupid about keeping your mouth shut” That‘s makes it an oxymoron when it’s posted by someone with the screen name “TruthTalker”. Nothing stupid @ all if your a criminal.

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