Head of Illinois trucking company indicted for fraud, kickbacks
Posted on March 16, 2009
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Well, what do you know, not all the crooks run banks. Thomas Buske, head of Buske Lines, Inc. of Illinois, has been indicted for submitting inflated invoices to S.C. Johnson & Son, where they were approved by an inside man (also indicted). The amounts involved are alleged to be in the millions.
I read somewhere once that 1/3 of all small businesses that fail is because of employee theft. That seemed ridiculous to me at the time, but when you read stories like this, you wonder. Makes you wonder how much some of these employees at Citigroup, AIG, etc. have been stealing.
On second thought, I take back the “crook” statement. It looks like he’s only been charged with these crimes, and Lord knows, the government often makes charges which are not true. Still, since about half-a-dozen people have struck plea agreements, no doubt all rolling on Buske, it doesn’t look good for him.
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