Crime paying criminal $5,000 per week.
How does this work?
This is the third time I have posted on this subject and it just keeps on happening.
See: www.stuff.co.nz...
Tapualii Raewyn Uitime, 49, defrauded the now defunct Pacific Island Safety and Prevention Project which received most of its funding from the Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Justice and Department of Corrections of about $260,000.
SFO director Julie Read said Uitime used the funds for her own benefit, including gambling.
“Ms Uitime abused her position of trust to steal a significant amount of public funds that were allocated for social support services, including family support, counselling and family violence education within the Pacific Island community in Auckland,” Read said.
The offending occurred over several years and was not spur of the moment, Read said.
She was sentenced to two years and one month in jail after charges were laid by the Serious Fraud Office.
So long as she behaves herself inside she will be out within a year!
That means she got her salary while doing the thieving and receives ‘payment’ for her time in prison of nearly $5000 per week.
Two questions:
Does the punishment fit the crime?
Does crime pay?
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Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
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