Bail Blog
04/11/2013
Every employee in the world thinks he should be paid more.
A woman from Boca Grande, Fla, took it upon herself to give herself an unauthorized raise. Ruth C. Amen, 46, lived a luxurious lifestyle that others thought she could not afford on her salary.
Then Amen made a mistake that lead to her arrest. She threw a lavish surprise party for her boss and did not expect that the biggest surprise would be on her.
Amen, a manager at Gulf to Bay Realty, was solely in-charge of the company’s billing and payroll. After she hosted the grand shindig for her supervisors, the company officials held an investigation which lead to a trail of poorly-managed finances and missing funds.
Reports say that Amen had used $92,000 of company funds to settle her personal credit card debt, rewarded herself with additional paychecks totalling to up to $65,000, and deliberately failed to deduct insurance cost from her salary. Investigators say she had embezzled a total of $182,000.
Amen was arrested for Grand Theft and Scheme to Defraud.