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Former Apple Employees Used Charity Scam to Steal Over $150,000
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i am interested in finding any link to a main stream media source that identifies him(or any of them) as Chinese nationals. all the stories i have found simply refer to them as residents of the local cities they live in. but i cant see any article in Chinese or English that mentioned they (he) are Chinese nationals.
can you pls provide a source? thanks.
The groups leader was apparently a certified accountant, so likely corporate and not retail.
Very unlikely that this person is a Chinese national even if he was here on a work visa. The spelling of his name doesn’t use Pinyin but Wade-Giles, which isn’t used on the mainland.
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Retail employees don't file $100,000 tax deductions or even $10K deductions
And yet you care enough to take the time to comment.
I’m waiting for the “I don’t understand how so many can be on the side of a multi-trillion dollar corporation about this!”
yeah no, when Apple hires they low ball you significantly for the most part. In order to make that amount of money, you need to be working in the company a long time...
However less they were making, it doesnt condone stealing.
That’s human nature. Most people want “more”. Wanting more is what drives human advancement, albeit not always illegally.
Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
I don't know who said it first, but I believe this.💯
Necessity drives human advancement. Wanting more just for the sake of having more is a cancerous trait.
He was both a CPA and held fairly high office in Apple’s near-mythic design department? Either this guy was one of those savants who just casually achieve for fun what others do for a career, or—as a cursory web search suggests—you mixed up his job title at Apple.
Apple is also notoriously sketchy for donation matching themselves. For example, they match donations to organizations that build illegal settlements in occupied territories as well as military gear and munitions.
They already got plenty of what they deserved already. Fired or quit knowing they would be fired when caught, charged with felonies, unemployable in tech or retail, paying lots of money to lawyers, most likely a criminal record, loss of banking access, credit report destruction. Need I go on?
A conviction will just be icing on the cake even it is only misdemeanors instead of a felony.
I don't think it matters if they were fired or quit. They are screwed anyway you frame it.
History in US would show that not even convictions can stop you from getting what you want and having people give you are second go.
Makes me wonder what you would actually have to do for people to finally go "enough already"...
I don't think Apple investigate to see what these charities do or if they're legit. They just match employee contributions [for tax purposes, of course]. If they had, they would have caught these crooks earlier.
I mean… if. If they are guilty of the things they are accused of.
I know nobody wants to hear this, but: They haven’t been found guilty of anything. There is a process for determining guilt and that process hasn’t concluded yet.
I know people generally believe what the government says unquestioningly (even those people whom typically express anti-government sentiments). MacRumors didn’t even do the bare minimum of including the single word of “allegedly”. But nothing has been proven yet.
It’s possible that none of them will be found guilty guilty. Or it’s possible that all of them will be found guilty. Or it’s possible that some of them will be found guilty and others will be found not guilty.
We are not really in disagreement, but you know being found guilty in the court of public opinion doesn't rely on being found guilty in legal court.
At first I laughed too much at this ad. But then the realization dawned on me that this is true due to the way the system is set up. The jury can only decide guilt or not based solely upon what is presented in court. If the prosecution fails to bring enough or the proper evidence to bear, the accused walks a free man whether culpable or not. ie OJ "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit"
I'm pretty sure that for some, it's simply the money. For others... well, the reasons may never make any sense to those of us who actually work for a living. Take this one California VP who committed the barcode scam about a decade ago, as an example. Pertinent quote from the article:
Dude was already more wealthy than I will ever be, and yet it still wasn't enough for him. 😵