Monday was a rough day for one Blockbuster employee in Colorado.

When he reported to work, he said that he had been attacked by 3 individuals near his workplace. Police arrived to investigate and found the employee with a stab wound on his leg along with cuts on his face and abdomen, according to a police affidavit obtained by the Smoking Gun. However, police say that when they reviewed surveillance video of the area in which the employee said he was attacked, they found no evidence of an attack in the video.

So, police confronted the employee. The man eventually admitted he had concocted the story and stabbed himself in the leg because he had ripped his work pants during a skateboarding incident and feared that he'd be disciplined if he showed up out of uniform, according to the police affidavit. Police also say that he admitted that the cuts on his face and abdomen were a result of the fall while he was skateboarding.

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The employee faces misdemeanor charges of false reporting and obstructing a police officer. The Smoking Gun obtained a mug shot of the employee in which you can see the cuts on his face.

Source: The Smoking Gun

When U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sentenced a Montana woman to almost 4 years in a federal prison for embezzlement, he said she had “systematically stolen money from basically everyone she has ever worked for.”

The bank teller, who pleaded guilty, will be at the Graybar Hotel for embezzling $800,000 from the First National Bank of Montana, as well as tax evasion. She also must pay restitution to various injured parties of over $1 million.

The judge told The Missoulian that he hopes the sentence and fine will “deter others in the financial community from stealing.” Things could have been worse--she initially faced a maximum prison term of 35 years, which was lessened under a plea agreement.

The teller, who was in charge of the vaults in various bank branches, began her embezzlement career early, starting at an athletics supplier and another bank. Her technique was to write cash transfer tickets to the vault she was in charge of and then pocket the cash.

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According to the newspaper article, she spent her purloined money shopping and on lavish gifts and trips. After her guilty plea, she told the judge that she now wants to face what has happened and be a responsible citizen.

Hope her next employer does a background check!

Source: The Missoulian

An Illinois man initially accepted a job as a systems analyst with a new employer, but he changed his mind and ultimately declined the job before even stepping foot in the new job. However, the man was already in the new employer's payroll system and started receiving paychecks. How do you think he responded?

Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest says the man received paychecks from October 2002 to February 2007 before New Jersey-based Avaya, a communications company, realized it was paying a person who had never worked for the company.

Forrest also alleged that the man had withdrawn funds from an employee retirement savings account into which Avaya had made contributions. Again, the man never actually worked for the company. Forrest says investigators listened to a tape-recorded conversation between the man and the company that administered the retirement savings account. In the conversation, the man claimed to be an employee of Avaya, Forrest says.

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In all, the man received $470,995.53 in pay and retirement savings, says Forrest.

Before going to trial, the man agreed to plead guilty. Forrest says that under the plea agreement, the state will recommend the man be sentenced to a state prison term of 6 years and be required to pay restitution. Sentencing is scheduled for January 8, 2010.

Source: Somerset County Prosecutor's Office