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forging her bosses’ signatures on checks and transfers, and then
moved money from their brokerage accounts to her checking accounts.
The scam was so simple and obvious that her lawyer
blamed her bosses for the crime because they were too busy
making money to monitor her behavior.
One of her bosses stated that he had noticed that his account
was “light” by two or three million dollars but assumed it was his
mistake. He also thought she was “a talented woman” and considered
promoting her because “she knows exactly how to work
for me.” Her lawyer argued that she was guilty of nothing more
than “honest greed.”
Perhaps, but De-Laurey also had a grotesque sense of ethics
and entitlement, and a convenient belief that God was on her
side. The latter was evident in her “Bibles of Daily Thoughts,”
notebooks containing her letters to God. “Dear God. Please help
me. I need one more helping of what’s mine and then I must cut
down and cease in time all the plundering,” she wrote. “Please
ensure my job is safe and my integrity is unquestioned.”
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
The purpose of this multistep selection process is to gather as much
information about potential hires from as many sources as possible so
that a company can make a good decision. By combining information
from multiple raters (that is, interviewers, references, and recommendations),
the company creates a more thorough picture of
each applicant, improving its chances of picking the right person for
the open job.
A thorough hiring process is very similar to the approach used by
psychologists and criminal justice professionals in assessing criminal
behavior, although obviously the criteria being rated are quite different.
A prison record is a de facto “résumé” of an offender’s “accomplishments”
and includes “references” and “performance reviews”