“I thought I was taking out a loan.”
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It really is amazing that nobody at the CL is self-interested enough to cover this stuff. It's click bait that is actually legitimate news, and they're sitting there at a dying newspaper in a dying industry and just think, what? "Even though I'm probably going to be unemployed in the next couple of years, I'm not going to do anything to increase my value or to slightly delay unemployment?" Is every "reporter" there just a metric 17ton of lazy with a skin wrapping and they are at the CL because the political interests give them an excuse to not do a bunch of work?
Not to mention that usually when people get arrested and charged with a crime their picture is in every article and on the news. The news segment shows B roll of our campus. The article has nothing.
Most people who embezzle never have been in trouble before. And, yes, it starts with deluding themselves and then just gets easier with time. Bottom line though is that separation of duties is missing, making it easier to hide the activity.
They keep referring to this as embezzling to support her clothing store, but surely she wasn't really losing $375k a year running a children's clothing store in Oxford? Surely she was breaking even and just stealing to fund her lifestyle? Not that it makes a huge difference, but it seems like it's allowing her to save face a tiny bit (because I guess people can at least fathom stealing to keep a business afloat) compared to the likely truth of stealing to keep looking like she was rich to her friends in Oxford.
https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2022/09/20/oxford-woman-sentenced-for-wire-fraud/
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/20/betty-jane-cadle-msu-sorority/
https://www.djournal.com/news/crime...cle_1d90db1f-3fa6-5367-bda8-d82c79f3846e.html
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/l...iversity-sorority/4GIU6D6OMJAZJG23NKHCJYG42E/
It is very interesting that the CL is one the few news outlets in the state and area that doesn't have even the AP story on this. The apathy is strong at Gannett.
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/09/20/betty-jane-cadle-msu-sorority/
https://www.djournal.com/news/crime...cle_1d90db1f-3fa6-5367-bda8-d82c79f3846e.html
https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/l...iversity-sorority/4GIU6D6OMJAZJG23NKHCJYG42E/
It is very interesting that the CL is one the few news outlets in the state and area that doesn't have even the AP story on this. The apathy is strong at Gannett.
Easy answer is the C-L ran off all of their good reporters and they are now working for Mississippi Today doing actual investigative reporting. They are the ONLY news outlet in the state doing anywhere near decent coverage of the TANF funds scandal and the Jackson water crisis cluster 17.
The Mississippi press is reporting the story as much as modern journalism permits, which is to say rerunning the AP story along with some intermittent local paper and independent journalists. However, the exception is the Clarion Ledger, which is baffling. I don't think this is a Mississippi issue as much as it is a "last 3 reporters on staff" problem at the CL and them not wanting to burn bridges in the future, as another poster pointed out.
I wouldn't extend the Ole Miss media bias paranoia out too far, given that two Oxford periodicals and the regional reporters all included it.
I wouldn't extend the Ole Miss media bias paranoia out too far, given that two Oxford periodicals and the regional reporters all included it.
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