How to Succeed in Business: The Embezzlement Edition

You guys, we’re in the wrong business. The money is not to be made on the collections floor or as a supervisor. The money is to be made by being the unscrupulous office manager for a debt collection agency.

Recently, Bruck Law Offices, a Milwaukee collection law firm, had to say goodbye to office manager Sanjuana Rodriguez for skimming around $75,000 between March 2008 and October 2010. Monday, she pleaded guilty to embezzlement, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Whenever I felt like needed money I would take it,” Rodriguez is alleged to have said; “maybe take $200 up to $1,000.” Rodriguez used the mad money for shopping sprees and trips (though clearly not on Embezzlement for Dummies.) The money quote is here, though: “It wasn’t a daily thing.”

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