D.C. Embezzlement Schemes: The Hits Keep Coming

WaPo's David Nakamura has the word on the latest D.C. embezzlement scheme -- and whaddya know, they just keep getting rosier! In this most recent case, a mother and daughter duo from Bowie -- contracted in 2003 to manage a city-backed program responsible for finding employment and paying blind people -- were indicted yesterday on charges that they stole $281,000 which was supposed to go into said sight-impaired folks' pockets and pensions. According to the indictment, the two would take revenues which were slated to feed into the blind employees' retirement accounts and simply write checks to their own personal accounts -- for good measure, the city also terminated their management company's contract after they failed to pay taxes or report accurate accounting records. (Yup, that combination of actions will probably get you caught, even if it is five years after the fact.) The offending pair, 70 and 51 years old respectively, are facing up to ten years in the pokey and some hefty fines for actually engaging in a certain idiom which I've had to try really, really, really hard not to use here.