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Office Drone Convicted of $376,000 Toner Grift
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Lauren Evans
Published Apr 16, 2013
Modified Apr 16, 2013
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It's been a pretty fucked up week (and it's only Tuesday!), so it's good to know that justice is being meted out somewhere, even if it is just the guy who in January was caught stealing $376,000 worth of copy machine toner from his office and selling it on the black market.
In what was hopefully the most trivial case Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance had to consider all day, Adrian Rodriguez, a former low-level office knave turned high-rolling grifter, was convicted today on charges of grand larceny in the second degree. Rodriguez admitted to ordering large amounts of unneeded copy toner for his employers, the law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and then selling it for $10 per box ($15 for color), storing it until he could hand it off to his "associates," as he undoubtedly called them, who would occasionally arrive at the office and whisk the Forbidden Toner away in a van.
“Theft is theft, whether of cash or office supplies,” the D.A. said in a statement. “In this case, the defendant profited from stealing and reselling hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of copy machine toner. Cases like this one, involving employee abuse, underscore the importance of reviewing company records in the effort to prevent employee theft.”
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