Assignment task:
Portrait of a White-Collar-Criminal There is an old saying in crime-fighting circles: Crime doesn't pay. However, for David Miller crime has paid rich dividends. It paid for two Mercedes-Benz sedans; a $280,000 suburban house; a condominium at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; $500 suits; and $75 tailored and monogrammed shirts. It also paid for diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald rings for his wife and a new car for his father-in-law. Though Miller has confessed to embezzling funds from six different employers over a 20-year period, he has never been prosecuted and has never been incarcerated. In large part, his freedom is the result of the fear that companies have about turning in employees who defraud them. Miller's first employer was also his first victim. After 10 months of selling insurance in Wheeling, West Virginia, Miller was tired for stealing $200. After holding an assortment of odd jobs, he moved to Ohio and worked as an accountant for a local baker. Miller was caught embezzling funds and paid back the $1,000 he had stolen. Again, he was not reported to the authorities and was quietly dismissed. Miller returned to Wheeling and went to work for Wheeling Bronze, Inc., a bronze-castings maker.