Massive Embezzlement Case Involving Fry's Electronics

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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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





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