By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A now-51-year-old financial group credit controller who stole $200,000 from her Springvale employer a decade ago has been given a suspended sentence.
Despite being on an $88,000 annual salary, Joanne Peters stole on 60 occasions in 12 months while running accounts at heating and air-con firm Coldflow.
Peters’ “regular and systematic” stealing spree started one month into her job at the Australian family-owned firm in mid-2011.
She stole customers’ cash payments, fiddled accounts and misused a customer’s credit card – deceit that required “significant planning and organisation”, Victorian County Court judge Wendy Wilmoth said on 23 February.
In August 2012, Coldflow’s CFO became suspicious about the discrepancies and moved Peters to another role.
several people affiliated with conservative groups who say they became targets of the government based on their political beliefs. beginning in 2010 the fbi contacted my non-profit organization on six separate occasions wanting to cull through membership manifests in conjunction with domestic terrorism cases. they eventually dropped all matters and have now redacted nearly all my files? the expected star witness, the justice department barbara bosserman, a political donor in charge of the investigation, did not appear. deputy james cole sent this letter citing long-standing policy is to decline to provide congress with non-public information about a criminal investigation. cole wrote, quote, it also is founded upon our commitment to avoiding any perception that our law enforcement efforts are subject to undue influence from elected officials. jordan openly questioned bosserman s credibility. a lady with a financial stake in a specific outcome is heading the investigation.
administration is going to be ready for the next deadline, january 1st. the president acknowledged very candidly that he had fumbled, himself and his team, the last deadline on october 1st with the rollout, so are they really ready when they re making these last minute changes, and can also the president has to explain the fact he s previously said we re not going to delay the individual mandate for all americans, well, now you re delaying it for some, that s going to anger other americans. and it also raises questions about how all this is going to work with these last minute changes because these are what the president has basically called junk plans with very low standards. it doesn t have the high standards he says his new law will have. hhs, joanne peters says, quote: r eporter: they re telling me at the health and human services
rules: the president is sure to get a lot of questions on that. they allow some people to buy so-called catastrophic plans if they recently lost their policies. so they don t get fined for not having coverage in the new year. you know, what does this mean for not only consumers, but for the insurance companies as well? let s bring in a spokesman for america s health insurance plans. it s nice to have you, robert. what is your reaction to this change? well, first off, thanks for having me on. of you know, continually changing the rules at this stage in the process is creating a tremendous amount of confusion for consumers and also uncertainty for businesses that are trying to implement this law or trying to help people get health care coverage that they need and get into the new marketplaces. jenna: the health and human services department had this to say, joanne peters:
breach. it is putting one in eight americans at risk. the lawsuits are already coming in all happening now. but first, just a short time from now, president obama will make remarks before he and the first family head out on a big christmas holiday. his year-end press conference, 2:00 eastern time this afternoon, less than 24 hours after an 11th hour, well it is more than a tweak. it s a big change to obamacare. hello, everybody, i m gregg jarrett in for jon scott. jenna: what that change means is the big question. gregg, nice to have you with us again. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. the white house changing rules for millions of americans who had their insurance plans canceled. those people are now exempt from the individual mandate, meaning they won t be fined for not having coverage next year as long as they get a very basic, catastrophic coverage. the delay coming days before the critical enrollment deadline which is on monday and sparking a lot of concerns about the fe