re: OT lawyer question about felony theft

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I feel like it'd be worth a few pissed off clients to stick someone like that in jail.

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There are some industries where admitting you were embezzled from would be a death sentence.

Would you hire an accounting firm as your corporate accountants if you knew that it took them five years to realize one of their own employees was embezzling from them? In this example, admitting the crime happened would be slitting their own throats. Instead they're likely to tell the employee that their choices are to resign and keep the money with an ironclad NDA in place or refuse to resign and go to jail and have to pay back the money. Both sides would almost always choose the former.