Accountants have all the fun

The postal employee may have been sloppy, but this guy is plain idiot. Writing a company check to pay for a new boat? LOLZ... Then came tax time, "We really need those tax forms Rod, think you can bring them by the office?" long pause... "can't talk now, I gotta get to the big meeting at the umm.. marina."

Denham Springs man booked on 31 counts of forgery, theft

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. A Denham Springs man has been arrested and accused of stealing nearly 100-thousand dollars while he was the chief financial officer of a Baton Rouge clinic by writing "bonus" checks to himself, using a company credit card, and even issuing a company check to buy himself a boat.

Forty-four-year-old Rodney J- Rodrigue was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison yesterday on 31 counts of forgery, theft of business records, unauthorized use of access card and felony theft. Rodrigue is worked for Scoliosis Treatment Recovery System.

Doctor Arthur Copes, who owns the clinic, says Rodrigue was hired in September 2003 to maintain financial records and handle the day-to-day operating expenses of the company.

Copes says the first signs that there were financial problems came last spring when Rodrigue refused to send the company's 2004 financial records to an accountant so taxes could be filed.

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