It turns out, there is such a thing as a "FREE LUNCH", until you get caught
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I could buy some coins or silver or gold with $500,000.00
Sister lunch ladies accused of stealing nearly $500K
NEW CANAAN, Conn. (AP) — Two sisters who were former cafeteria workers are charged with stealing nearly a half-million dollars from Connecticut schools over the last five years.
Police say 61-year-old Joanne Pascarelli, of Stratford, and her sister, 67-year-old Marie Wilson, of Wilton, turned themselves in to New Canaan police this weekend after warrants were issued for their arrest.
The two have been charged with larceny and defrauding a public community for allegedly stealing $478,588 from Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School from 2012 to 2017. Board of Education officials did not reply to a request for comment.
An attorney for Wilson says she is innocent and is "not going to be scapegoated." The sisters have been released after each posted a $50,000 bond, and will be in court later in August. An attorney for Pascarelli could not be identified.
(Joanne Pascarelli, left, and her sister Marie Wilson, right, via New Canaan Police Department/AP)
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The school must have had some great accounting measures in place. It only took them five years to discover the missing money.
Stealing from kids - the worst of the worst.
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Just another couple of gutter thieves... does not matter what sex, age, how they look or background.... Thieves are thieves and as such, criminals. Human garbage, try them, convict them, imprison them. Cheers, RickO
What these women did is wrong, but the School was asleep at the wheel and should have built an accounting system that would catch this way before 5 years.
Something as simple a comparing the numbers on the cash register to the bank deposit would do it.
I just hate to see school resources squandered due to theft and incompetence. This money should have been spent on education, not wasted.
I've seen similar stories like this before.
I'd be 99% sure that they were high rollers at the Connecticut casinos.
Explains why it cost around 30K a year for each student in that area. No details on how they got so much money. Perhaps they had something to do with the food contracts and a kick back or padding of the bill was taking place.
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Maybe they were taking it home to check the coins for errors/rarities or bow tie fantastic.
On a serious note, I will wait to see if they are actually convicted.
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With all the MBAs, CPAs and other organizational geniuses in this county and town where I live you would expect better....Suffice it to say those in charge of schools have egg all over their faces. But we are lucky to have a forensic accountant who has been bringing up alarms for many years now. The highest per capita town debt in the state of CT too.
They are saying that a cashless school food program would be better; I guess the thieves would just have to be smarter then.
With the plethora of casinos in the land I wonder how much theft money/suspects wind up there. Since cameras are everywhere in the casinos, they should be able to pick them out quite easily for investigators-unless,for whatever reasons, the investigators don't want to. Would reflect bad on the casinos I suppose.
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The investigators likely knew all this before the hammer came down. The casinos were probably one of the first places they checked when starting their investigation. They could simply get a court order to have the casinos release info regarding if the two women were members there and how much comps they received. If the comps were high, meaning they gambled a lot of money, then it was just a matter of putting the pieces together as to how the women stole the money.