The office manager for the Rapid City Rush, an East Coast Hockey League team, will be spending 37 months in the ultimate penalty box: prison. Over the 11 years that she worked for the team, she embezzled more than $700,000 from the Rush organization, and of course failed to report and pay tax on the income. Her attorney noted that she is indeed guilty but had committed her crimes within the organization’s “culture of corruption.” The theft was discovered when the team came under new ownership and the owners scrutinized the bookkeeping. (https://apnews.com/article/hockey-crime-embezzlement-tax-evasion-courts-663e4bbd4af1fb24cff1dbcb30129199)
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