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When confronted with irregularities in his employer’s books, an accountant goes into hiding.
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Sources:
· End of the Trail: Fugitive Comptroller [ACFE Fraud Magazine]
· Fugitive Spent Years Hiding on the Appalachian Trail [FBI]
· FBI Announces Arrest of Fugitive Suspect James T. Hammes [FBI]
· Former Fugitive Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $8.7 Million from Employer [DOJ]
· Former Fugitive Sentenced to 96 Months in Prison [DOJ]
· Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator [BOP]
· A Long Walk's End [SB Nation]
· A Killer Hiding on the Appalachian Trail? [The Daily Beast]
· Accountant who hid on Appalachian Trail jailed for embezzling millions from Pepsi bottler [Accounting Today]
· Man facing $8.7M embezzlement case hid on Appalachian Trail [Associated Press]
· Trail hiker pleads guilty to wire fraud in embezzling case [Associated Press]
· Judge sentences trail-hiking fugitive to 8 years in prison [Associated Press]
· Kentucky accountant who fled embezzlement case to appeal [Associated Press]
· Man admits embezzling millions from Cincinnati employer [WLWT]
· Lawyers: Appalachian Trail was client's 'road to redemption' [WLWT]
· Man who hid on Appalachian Trail sentenced in $8.7M embezzlement case [WLWT]
· Feds seek 7-year term for Milwaukee-native fugitive [Wisconsin Law Journal]
· FBI Arrests Fugitive James Hammes at Trail Days [AppalachianTrail.com]
· AT Thru-Hiker Bismarck Arrested at Trail Days on Embezzling Charges [The Trek]
· James Hammes caught after hiding on the Appalachian Trail [TheJournal.ie]
· American Greed: The Fugitives — "Deceitful Dad and the Missing Millions" [CNBC]
· America's Most Wanted — Season 26, Episode 37 [America's Most Wanted]. A Long Walk's End [SB Nation]
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Christopher Derry spent 36 years working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, 17 as a detective in fraud and cyber crime. Over that time, he’s seen a lot and learned a lot about why people commit fraud, how far they’ll go to keep it going, and what they’ll do to avoid being caught.
In his senior year at UCLA, Alan L. Green secured an internship as an actuary with Equity Funding, a fast-growing financial conglomerate. Only a short time later, he was invited to play a small part in a fraud that would eventually be exposed as one of the biggest corporate scandals of the 20th century.
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