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Originally Posted by mikemhg
I was shocked as well when he told me the city wasn't pursuing her for the funds, as to put a case together would cost them litigation fees and the negative external optics which they were trying to avoid. So they essentially made her walk, and kept it hush hush.
The VEC is a relatively small sector of the City of Vancouver, upwards of $1 million is nothing to scoff at. My friend is especially choked as this whole thing has totally ruined their initiatives for this year due to budgetary reasons. I'm surmising this hasn't came out to the press due to small size of the VEC's team.
I'm blown away by the privilege this woman can have though. Nothing on her record criminally, not even a mark on her employment record, she'll coast off to another position somewhere else with little consequence.
It shows the stark contrast in terms of the consequences and penalties between those who steal from their employer on the entry/lower level, as opposed to the executive level.
It's truly amazing how little we know as a populace in terms of what's going on in our elected governments.
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For an entry/lower level employee who wants to steal small bucks, they will be the only one to know of it until they get caught.
For an executive level person stealing that kind of money, more than one pair of eyes must have been turned to allow that to happen.
