{"id":36,"date":"2009-10-07T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.gotschmucked.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2009-10-07T05:02:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T05:02:38","slug":"auditorembezzels60keludespolice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Costco auditor accused of embezzling $60K, eludes police by claiming he needed to use the bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have filed charges against a Costco auditor for filing phony travel expenses.\u00a0 A police investigation has led to charges against a 40 year old man who allegedly embezzled $60,000 over a 18 months by filing expense reports for 69 business trips during the 18 month period.\u00a0 The defendant initially agreed to meet with a police detective to discuss the case, but said he first had to go to the bathroom.\u00a0 Instead he left the building.\u00a0\u00a0 He later called his Costco supervisor and \u201cwas frantically stating he did not want to go to prison.\u201d\u00a0 The supervisor asked the defendant to return to the office to discuss the matter, but he refused. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/stories\/2009\/10\/05\/daily24.html?ed=2009-10-06&amp;ana=e_du_pub\" target=\"_blank\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have filed charges against a Costco auditor for filing phony travel expenses.\u00a0 A police investigation has led to charges against a 40 year old man who allegedly embezzled $60,000 over a 18 months by filing expense reports for 69 business trips during the 18 month period.\u00a0 The defendant initially agreed to meet with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Costco auditor accused of embezzling $60K, eludes police by claiming he needed to use the bathroom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}