Probably about 2 days of overcharging of clients by the firm as a whole, but he's blue collar, so off to jail with him. Which about sums it all up, really.
Embezzlement, which is what this was [1], is a white-collar crime. Just like overcharging clients. In fact, there's nothing to even suggest that he was a "blue-collar worker", particularly if he was entrusted with making hundreds of thousands of dollars of purchases.
Not everything needs to be a socio-economic conspiracy theory. Justice prevailed here. If you have evidence that this law firm is fraudulently overcharging its clients, I suggest you present that evidence to the authorities. In the meantime, don't try to insinuate that this guy was somehow a victim.
[1] I know technically the conviction was for larceny. Looking at the 3rd paragraph of the following, it can be seen as a pretty blurry line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embezzlement#Embezzlement_versu.... Based on the example there, it seems like the charge could just have easily fit the definition of embezzlement.
" The building circular – A cage, glazed – a glass lantern about the Size of Ranelagh – The prisoners in their cells, occupying the circumference – The officers in the centre. By blinds and other contrivances, the inspectors concealed - from the observation of the prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of omnipresence – The whole circuit reviewable with little, or if necessary without any, change of place. One station in the inspection part affording the most perfect view of every cell. " [1]
Seatposts and rims seem to be easier to transport and hide in transit.
Common wisdom is a seatpost gets you about $10 which helps towards one's daily fix.
Actually bike theft around here falls into two categories -- high end that are shipped out of area quickly and low end which are chopped up and "recycled" for a quick buck.
Lots of the chop shops have been found of late due to a community effort to try and clean things up.
A certain segment has been raiding for copper for a long time. An old building I worked in in downtown Sacramento was flooded because someone stole the copper water pipes on the next building over -- shooting water into our building. This was back in like 2008/2009.
It's just construction theft. Stealings not great but it happens, no reason to get depressed about it.
Not like they were looting straight after the storm or any thing, perhaps that might be depressing but looting in natural disasters is just a myth. A strange myth people cling to, I can think of happier fables to believe in.
All I can think is if this guy wasn't convicted: "Please tell us about the time you, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage."
He didn't truly hack the system as much as he committed a very dumb theft/crime.
Between an approximately two year period (Oct 2010 to Dec 2012), he ordered an amount of toners that greatly exceeded the law firm's usage. This jump in cost would have been pretty obvious to an auditor/accountant comparing it to the historical order amount for ink toners & some sanity check.
But because he got away with it for two+ years, makes me wonder whether he greatly increased these orders after the first year of getting away with it.
