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Good evening welcome to the barnes noble event and thank you for coming out on a spring evening. We appreciate you being here. If you could take one moment and look at your cell phone and make sure they are turned off, we would appreciate that. Following todays reading and questionandanswer, immediately after you will find me outside of the glass doors. We have plenty of books available to purchase including one even newer than todays. Like my teacher always said, great Graduation Day gift. After words, they will be more than happy to sign them for you up here, im sure. We are very happy to invite up in the guest category, our guest this evening. When she is not running the first line of defense upstairs at Customer Service here on the barnes noble or serving as a bouncer during our broadway events, a a roll of which she is most effective at, this publishing executive is bu ....
When i tune to it in the weekend usually its authors sharing their new releases. Watching nonfiction authors oh on book tv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have longer conversations and delve into the subject. Book tv they bring you author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating the people. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening and welcome to the barns noble and we appreciate you guys being here. If you could all just take one moment adder take a look at your cell phones and please be sure they are turned off. We would appreciate that. So following todays reading and question and answer, immediately afterwards you will find me outside and we have plenty of books for purchase, great, graduation gift. [applause] we have some outside as well. Afterwards erin will be more than happy to sign them for you, im sure. So we are very happy to invite up in the guest category for a change our guest this even ....
Holder and secondary account holder Rita Cornwell, the scam was fairly simple. Cornwell will would draft fake invoices, he would misspell town and illinois and things like. She would transfer to bank account and deposit into the dummy account. Any audit, any audit at all in 30 years would have uncover it had scam. No one ever checked. Why would they . This was rita, she worked for the town all of these years she got away with writing nearly 200 fake invoices for road repairs and other items in addition to checks to the city account to rscda account that were made out directly to treasurer. Even some of the checks were made out to facilities and spas and since no one was watching, no one was noticing. So it started small but in the few years after opening the account Rita Cornwell was making checks out to fairly large amounts like 300,000. Rita cornwell stole millions. I know th ....