It's when they bilk lots of money from the library they work at.
From a story in the New York Times...
Margo Reed’s story is not one of those tales.
Still, there was a perverse reminder that a little can go a long way
when she was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty in February to
making off with $163,582 in library fines collected by the three public
library branches in Yonkers over a seven-year period.
Ms. Reed, 54, was sentenced to shock probation — six months in the
Westchester County Jail and the rest of the next five years on probation
— by Richard A. Molea, acting justice of the State Supreme Court, after
she pleaded guilty to felony charges of grand larceny and filing false
tax returns. She will also have to make restitution for the amount of
the theft. Prosecutors had sought a state prison sentence, which would
have meant at least a year in prison.
Her lawyer, Lawrence Sykes, said that she had no prior record of arrests
or convictions, but had a gambling addiction — including gambling in
Atlantic City and playing the lottery — that helped lead to her crime.
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