When they realized what was going on, they contacted Kelly. At that point, Kelly’s reign as an embezzler came to an end. Initially, after she realized she was in trouble, Kelly tried to find a way out. She offered to sell her apartment and work for free. Unfortunately, nothing would come close to providing commensurate compensation for their lost amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
As a result, Quan and Wimmer contacted the police, who arrested Kelly. The business owners are now in dire straits, having lost everything. Quan doesn’t believe they’ll ever be able to recover.<\/p>\n
Kelly’s case went to trial, where she first tried to claim that her actions were her friends’ fault. She stated that they never offered to pay her once things started to recover and that she stole the money so she wouldn’t have to tell her husband that she didn’t have any money.<\/p>\n
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Then, her lawyer tried to deploy the pity plea. She came from an impoverished home in Burma, her parents abandoned her as a child, and she had a “deprived childhood” \u2013 almost boilerplate excuses to justify someone’s life of crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The judge presiding over the case, David MacLean, didn’t buy it. While he admitted that Kelly likely suffered some abuse, she “stole directly, repeatedly without guilt, remorse or shame from someone who you appeared to consider as family.”<\/p>\n
MacLean called her “ruthless” and “greedy” and accused her of abusing her position of trust. Kelly was to stand trial for stealing the full amount, but a plea deal reduced the total to AU$2 million (US$1.42 million).<\/strong><\/p>\nAs a result, the judge sentenced her to four years and eight months behind bars \u2013 she could be eligible for parole in less than three. Quan and her husband, however, have lost 10 years of their lives that they’ll never get back. MacLean ordered the seizure of Kelly’s assets, but they won’t be worth nearly the amount she stole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The owners of the Busy Bee Pharmacy in Perth, Australia, thought they had run into good luck when a family friend offered to manage the company’s books. What they didn’t expect was that the friend would ultimately embezzle over AU$3.5 million (US$2.48 million) to gamble, leading them to financial ruin. Diana Quan and her husband, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":225930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[81985,13363,13766],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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