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 > > [image: increase text > > size]<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/mark-twain-house-employee-embezzled-1-million.html?track=icymi#>[image: > decrease text > > size]<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/mark-twain-house-employee-embezzled-1-million.html?track=icymi#> > **** > > <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/mark-twain-house-employee-embezzled-1-million.html#comments> > **6** > > <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/mark-twain-house-employee-embezzled-1-million.html&text=Mark%20Twain%20House%20employee%20embezzled%20%241%20million&via=latimesbooks> > 38 > > > [image: > > Marktwainhouse_ct]<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e8a804d0f970d-pi> > > 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