We can tell you, it was not (very) well for the man.
Recently, we found a different story that you don’t read every day. The main character: Terrance, a good family man from Colorado. Married, accountant, two children, to the eye nothing special. Terrance, however, has a dark secret. He is addicted. Okay, that are more people. The ‘cruel mistress’ of Terrance is, however, not house-garden-and-kitchen heroin, but a much more severe drug. The man can’t stay away from (classic) BMW’s.
You think now it may be ‘oh so Terrance is a fan of BMW’s, separately say”. But in this case, the story is really a bit further than that. To his BMW passion to be able to exercise lied Terrance namely, wife and child, stole he has tons of his employer, and he turned eventually bake. But, HOW THEN!?! A former neighbor of the former accountant tells the story.
In the neighborhood where he lived was no secret that Terrance car enthusiast. At his house, he had, after all, three BMW 2002’s in the garage, where he’s often committed to tinkering. When neighbor David Obuchowski also a time advice needed for the purchase of a Volkswagen Eurovan, it was logical to agree to consult with the benzinehoofd. David, however, proved just the time chosen to have that Terrance on the verge of collapse. Instead of advice, he received this confession, to hear:
“Before we get to your car questions, I need to tell you something. My wife left me. My kids won’t talk to me. I lost my job. I embezzled almost a half a million dollars because I’m addicted to BMWs, and have been hiding them all over the state. I’ll probably be going to prison soon.”
What turned out: Terrance had to sneak tons of skimmed in the family business where he is the accountant worked. The money was fully gone to BMW’s. His wife thought that he eight Bavarian cars had, but in reality he had no less than fifty. Thirty copies were on the site of a fellow sloper. The other twelve in a parking lot at his work.
With his work? But his employer is not in the holes? Yes, but apparently enjoyed Terrance have so much confidence of his boss, Byron Chrisman that the amount of old BMW’s on the site is not suspicious found. Byron and his son, Steve considered their accountant to say that as a family. They thought that Terrance is a bit of acting with the BMW’s, as a source of extra income.
“It was just an unbelievable shock when we found out he would have betrayed us in the way in which he did. I mean, for all intents and purposes, as far as we were concerned, we a child or treated Terrance as family.”
Terrance himself claims now that he is so’n 312.500 Dollar has stolen from the Chrismans. As an accountant he gave himself in six years time, say 125 times $ 2,500 additional salary. According to the bereaved family, the amount, however, is even greater. About where the money has gone, there is by contrast no doubt. Terrance says:
“Before I got the $2,500, I’d run up one of my credit cards with $2,500 worth of stuff that I bought—either vehicles or parts for vehicles. And, you know, the $2,500 I took in the form of pay, I paid off the credit card. And then just repeat the process over and over again. [I] squandered it on restoring and racing these vintage BMW 2002s.”
When the secret of Terrance inevitably began to come, supported the wife of the BMW-enthusiast him at first. But the obsession with the cars and the resulting deceitful behaviour of the auditor made in the end that marriage was not sustainable. Terrance fingeerde, for example, still at his work when he has already been dismissed. The bomb burst when Terrance lied and said he had no money when the family somewhere was going to eat. Afterwards came his wife found out that he did monnie in his pockets. The critical mass of lies was reached.
But not only private had the auditor ultimately pay for his deeds. Also to the society, and particularly the Chrismans was Terrance, of course, accountable. In the first instance explained to the court a sentence of twenty years on probation. Not to the cell, you can have your hands squint in America you might say. Terrance was there, however, do not agree. The suspended sentence was that he be constantly in the down would be taken by the Economic Crimes Unit. That monitor is apparently pretty far in America, even if you (to) regularly go to a restaurant, they can knock on your door.
Thus asked Terrance to his lawyer, the punishment is not to accept. He wanted to go a few years bak in and then really be free. The court was not exactly amused, because this is the reasoning of Terrance saw as a declaration of intent to no decent citizen. Thus, explained the court, Terrance the maximum prison term of six years, plus three years probation.
Nevertheless, it was Terrance, thanks to good behavior and such after 26 months already outside the prison walls. That works also in America as (in some states). His former employer, Byron Chrisman, however, has no resentment:
“Our prisons are overcrowded anyway. My personal belief is that I do not want to see him spend six years in prison. You and I as taxpayers pay the cost of incarcerating them. And that’s not cheap. I would rather see him out trying to make a living. And my personal belief is that although he effectively stole $500,000 from us, he paid a huge price for that. Huge. I think he did lose his family. I’m not sure if whether they’ve gotten back together in any way, shape, or form. But he lost his license as a certified public account. That was extremely important to him. He was so proud of the fact that he was a CPA.”
Terrance claims that his debts are currently risen to approximately one million Dollars. He would like to again have contact with his family, but that process does not really rafts. Yet there is also positive news for the witteboordencrimineel: he still drives a BMW. Although not 2002 anymore, but a nice youngtimer in the form of a dark blue E39 Touring. You can’t take.
But what if Terrance still equally unnoticed by could deal with his fraud and the cars in the meantime, all enormously increased in value were…(via Jalopnik.com)