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embezzle

verb as in steal money, often from employer

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An Orange County woman is in hot water after embezzling millions from an instant ramen company she worked for, federal prosecutors said.

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"Whatever happens here, stays here. Guaranteed. So if you've just embezzled the company funds, come on camera now. It's fine."

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The leak occurred while he was in detention, accused of depositing a huge sum of embezzled money into secret accounts in the Cayman Islands.

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Earlier this year, RN leader Marine Le Pen was convicted by a French court of helping to embezzle European Union funds.

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He was arrested in April and was later accused of embezzling funds that had been allocated for the building of fortifications on the border with Ukraine.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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