A ‘Trusted’ Employee Stole $90,000 From a Company Now on The Brink of Collapse. Here’s 1 Simple Thing You Can Do to Avoid a Similar Fate.

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A newspaper in Eugene, Oregon was recently forced to stop printing. Was it because of a downturn in the publishing industry? A new competitor? A natural disaster? Nope. It was because of embezzlement.

According to this report in The New York Times, management at The Eugene Weekly — a 40-year-old publication with a circulation of over 30,000 readers — discovered a mountain of unpaid bills and unfunded retirement accounts thanks to a former financial staffer who had taken tens of thousands of dollars sometime during their five year period with the paper.

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