HR Tech News » background screening http://www.hrtechnews.com HRMS, Internet Monitoring, Payroll Software, Time and Attendance, and more Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:10:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Lighter side: Employee pays back stolen money … by stealing again http://www.hrtechnews.com/lighter-side-employee-pays-back-stolen-money-by-stealing-again/ http://www.hrtechnews.com/lighter-side-employee-pays-back-stolen-money-by-stealing-again/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:00:45 +0000 Sam Narisi http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=1776 Another example of why background checks can never be too thorough:

A woman was recently arrested for stealing from her employer — and using the money to pay back an employer she’d stolen from previously.

Got that? Here are the details:

Kathy Foer-Morse worked as a paralegal for a law firm in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She was recently fired, arrested and charged with stealing $100,937 from the firm. Allegedly, she’d been writing herself fraudulent checks from estate accounts the firm managed, the Pottstown Mercury reports.

Police said Foer-Morse was sending the money to her previous employer, a law firm in New York City. She owed them restitution after she was caught stealing $285,000 while she worked there.

No word on whether the firm knew about her past when it hired her, but we’re guessing she found a way to hide it from them.

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