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Massive Embezzlement Case Involving Fry's Electronics
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:14:25 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: December 23, 2008 12:08:22 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Massive Embezzlement Case Involving Fry's Electronics Dave, I dare say that many of us on this list have a love/hate relationship with Fry's Electronics, and their massive, themed stores. There are several of them here in the L.A. area, and my favorite is the SciFi themed (the UFO crashed into the building!) site in Burbank ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000071.html -- apologies for the horrid cell phone camera photo from more than four years ago). The store out here in the West San Fernando Valley is themed to "Alice in Wonderland" throughout. Fry's has always seemed to have a highly disciplined, very much top-down management style -- to say the least. If you've been there, you know what I mean. Fry's has become the "go to" place for immediate access electronics parts for many years. Now comes word that the single individual reported to be ultimately responsible for all merchandise stocking at all Fry's has been arrested in a $65M embezzlement case, complete with gambling debts and jets to Vegas. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-frys24-2008dec24,0,7762946.story And that's no white rabbit. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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