In many respects the embezzlement of which Leopold Redpath was guilty closely resembled that of Robson, but it was based upon more extended and audacious forgeries.
Two cases of extensive embezzlement which were discovered almost simultaneously, those of Robson and Redpath, will long be remembered both within and without the commercial world.
Morley's embezzlement and its consequences gave me a happy excuse for keeping on this fellow's trail while he was busy perfecting the machinery for Perry's destruction.
Surface was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to ten years at hard labor, and every Democrat in the State cried, "I told you so.
The got-up stories about embezzlement and dilapidation of the public money, in Flanders, were allowed to go to sleep, when they had answered their destined purpose of bringing about his fall from political power.
This ridiculous calumny, and the atrocious libels as to the embezzlementof the public money, however, produced the desired effect.
Few men would have dared, like Marius de Tregars, to offer their name to the daughter of a wretch charged with embezzlement and forgery, and that at the very moment when the scandal of the crime was at its height.
Vincent Favoral, on the charge of embezzlementand forgery.
Tregars, "that the embezzlement of which your father has just been the victim does not in any way offend your good humor.
Whether my father is caught, or whether he escapes, he will be tried all the same, condemned, and sentenced to a degrading penalty for embezzlement and forgery.
Favoral appeared to me singularly calm for a man charged with embezzlement and forgery.
Are you going to say that the crime of embezzlement is a dead letter?
Hence all the great wrong and injury of embezzlement can be committed, and all the gain and profit of it be secured, without violating the statute or rendering the officer liable to criminal prosecution.
The crime of embezzlement is a pure creature of the statute.
This principle is most commonly applied in charges for uttering false documents or base coin, and not uncommonly in charges for false pretences, embezzlement or murder.
If there is embezzlement anywhere, cause the funds so embezzled to be disgorged.
And he will go on to speak of the embezzlement of the forty-five francs as the beginning of the crimes that led to the assassination.
The forty-five francs which constitute an embezzlement for a salaried man will be, certainly, a starting-point for the accusation; one commences by a weakness and finishes by a crime.
The definition of embezzlement as a special form of theft arose out of the difficulties caused by the legal doctrine that to constitute larceny the property must be taken out of the possession of the owner.
In the United States the law of embezzlement is founded mainly on the English statute passed in 1799, but the statutes of most states are so framed that larceny includes embezzlement.
Footnote 20: In specifications to charges of larceny or embezzlement the value of the property shall be stated.
They were charged with gross corruption, and with embezzlement of the public revenue, for the purchase of great estates for themselves, and the grievous burthen of the people by taxation.
He therefore accused Rochester of negligence or embezzlement in his office, and succeeded in removing him (1684) from the Treasury board to the Presidency of the Council.
He was charged with embezzlementin his province and defended by Cicero in B.
Footnote 55: Asconius assigns this to the accusation of embezzlement in Africa.
He was now being tried for embezzlementin Asia, and was defended by the famous Q.
Cowperwood, as broker, employed by the treasurer to sell the bonds of the city, had committed embezzlementand larceny as bailee.
The law says one to five years at the outside; but the sentences usually average from one to three years in embezzlement cases.
Embezzlement on a check, which constitutes the fourth charge, is simply a more definite form of fixing charge number two in an exact way and signifies appropriating the money on a check given for a certain definite purpose.
And we will state that the surviving partner of the firm is convinced that the only person guilty of that embezzlement was one Allen Chesterton, who was the firm's bookkeeper.
It is as certain as anything can be that George Horbury never lost a penny by embezzlement or, indeed, in any other way.
In many cases the end of all this is wretchedness at home and loss of character and means of subsistence; if he is in a house of business he lives beyond his income, and embezzlement is the result.
The embezzlement from the Abbe Raynal was, it is true, committed by one country upon another, and therefore shews no defect in the laws of either.
Norbanus of embezzlement and misconduct during the war, condemned and imprisoned.
Cabarrus himself was accused of embezzlement and thrown into prison.
Septimius was found guilty of embezzlement before the praetor Hortensius, the money he had received in his quality of judge was included in his fine; how C.
If the fortune of the defendant was not sufficient for the repayment of the money claimed, all those who had profited by the embezzlement were sought out and jointly condemned.
