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You can use the word 'embezzler' to describe someone who has committed the crime of embezzlement, which is the act of illegally taking money or property that has been entrusted to them. This can occur in a professional or personal setting. Example: The company's accountant was arrested for being an embezzler, as he had been siphoning off funds from the company's accounts for his own personal gain.
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embezzler
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One who steals money they have been trusted with, especially from one's employer; one who embezzles
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There appeared to be an opportunity for the embezzler to embezzle with perfect safety.
The two events augured yet another year of turmoil for a royal family with tumbling popular support.The increasingly frail-looking 76-year-old monarch, who has had five hip operations over the past two years, had hoped the princess would escape the attention of investigating magistrate José Castro, who has already named her husband Iñaki Urdangarín as a suspected embezzler and tax fraudster.
IT TOOK Liberia's Charles Taylor seven bloody years to graduate from embezzler to warlord to elected president.
His origins were middle class, if of a newfound and precarious respectability; one grandfather had been a domestic servant, and the other an embezzler.
Three of a Kind (1943) contained the short novels Sinful Woman, Double Indemnity, and The Embezzler.
Started by soft-porn film-maker Russ Meyer and completed by Julien Temple, The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle mock-documentary attempted to recast McLaren – "The Embezzler" – as a Dickensian, Fagin-like character, who had recruited ruffians like Cook and Jones – true enough! – and had always been pulling the strings.
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Quite amazing, to an embezzler-fantasist, was how instructive the daily newspapers were.
Just then the thief screeches into the car park in a brand new red sports car, radio blaring.In the real world, embezzlers are seldom so obvious.
Treating financial dealings with African governments as a state secret, as China does, aids embezzlers and fuels suspicion.Expecting much more than this, you might say, is hopelessly naive.
Precisely because it is a nexus for broader crime and malpractice, more governments and law-enforcement agencies should emulate America's Justice Department (and India's Supreme Court, which is trying to clean up cricket) by pursuing the embezzlers, bribe-payers and money-launderers, and dishing out serious punishments to those they catch.
Thomas Jefferson Rusk (played by Jeff Fahey) went to Texas in pursuit of embezzlers who had fled with the funds of a Georgian gold-mining firm in which Rusk had invested.
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