“What’s so typical,” said an interested neighbor eating lunch at an area cafe the afternoon of the sentencing, “is he bought depreciable items! If he’d just inv

“What’s so typical,” said an interested neighbor eating lunch at an area cafe the afternoon of the sentencing, “is he bought depreciable items! If he’d just invested in the market, he could have replaced the money, taken his share, and they would have been none the wiser.” Indeed. Reading stories like this, I'm always struck by the sheer incompetence and greed of the perps, and how many warning signs everybody else manages to miss. How many other tales like this are there that we never hear about, because the thief had half a clue?