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In answer to Alex's question, the form to use to report illicit income 
is schedule 10 to 40, with time off for good behavior.

Gregg

p.s.  Sorry for the random characters.  I guess my cell phone doesn't 
like Mark Twain.

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:54:31 -0700, Arianne wrote:
> Thought you'd all want to know if you hadn't seen this yet.  Also 
> some of
> the links below were interesting, and I hadn't seen the articles 
> before.
> Arianne Laidlaw
>
>
> Mark Twain House employee embezzled $1 million
> August 9, 2011 |  8:30 am
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> An employee of the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Conn., 
> has
> admitted in court to embezzling $1 million from the organization that
> maintains the author's historic home. The Mark Twain House, like the 
> homes
> of some of America's other best-known writers, has faced financial
> difficulties. Most, however, were not systematically plundered.
>
> Longtime (and now former) staffer Donna Gregory regularly raided the
> organization's coffers for eight years; she pleaded
> 
> guilty<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-crime-marktwain-idUSTRE77476H20110805>
> to
> charges of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, Reuters reports.
>
> According to court documents, Gregor submitted false information over 
> the
> Internet to the Mark Twain House payroll vendor between 2002 and 
> 2010. The
> misinformation allowed additional pay to which she was not entitled 
> to be
> deposited into her bank account, classified as payroll advances.
>
> She then adjusted the ledgers to cover up the advances by 
> reclassifying the
> amounts as utilities, maintenance and similar items. She also 
> falsified the
> Mark Twain House's bank statements to hide the advances, authorities 
> said.
>
> Gregor used the Mark Twain House's check-writing system to write 
> checks
> payable to herself and forged her supervisor's signatures on those 
> checks,
> authorities said.
>
> A board member of the home said the fraud was discovered when a bank 
> staffer
> questioned some signatures. Gregory faces a maximum of 23 years in 
> prison, a
> $2-million fine and will be ordered to pay back the Mark Twain House 
> and its
> insurance company.
>
> *RELATED:*
>
> Mark Twain stamp hits post offices June
> 
> 25<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/06/mark-twain-stamp.html>
>
> Inside the next volume of Twain's
> 
> autobiography<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/03/next-volume-mark-twain-autobiography.html>
>
> Could a movie save Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore
> 
> house?<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/could-the-poe-movie-save-edgar-allan-poe-house-baltimore.html>
>
> [*For the Record, 6:16 p.m., Aug. 9: *An earlier version of this post 
> said
> the Twain House is in West Hartford, Conn.]
>
> -- Carolyn Kellogg
>
> *Photo: The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn. Credit: Jim Bourg / 
> Reuters*

-- 
Gregg Camfield
Vincent Hillyer Professor of Literature

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