Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Nice work if you can get it

I'd like to know how this guy pulled off his scam for so long without anybody catching on:
A French tax official cheated the government out of 600,000 euros ($820,000) by creating a phantom identity as a university professor and claiming a salary for some 15 years, the government said Monday.

Education Ministry officials uncovered the scam in June and began legal and disciplinary action immediately, Budget Minister Eric Woerth said in a statement.
Didn't anybody at the university he was drawing a salary from notice that he was, you know, never there? Or that he didn't seem to be doing any work?

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