Edith Harriss: Accounting Scandal

Thinking we live in a place where no one steals or harms, and everyone has ethical morals is false. This summer in our hometown, Chesterfield, a woman was caught stealing at least $800,000 from Physicians for Women. Edith Harris, 51, was arrested on June 29 on 11 counts of felony embezzlement. Edith Harris has been charged for alleged offenses, from January. The investigation started after a patient asked why they had never received their refund. Harris’s responsibility was to provide refunds to patients. After investigating, they noticed that many patients hadn’t received their refunds. The investigator said that over the past years she had embezzled more than $800,000. Harris’s responsibility was to provide refunds to patient’s. Surprisingly,

I was worried that our accounts were going to be affected. You would never expect something like that to happen in our area. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of an accounting scandal in Virginia, especially Chesterfield. What’s the point of stealing? I didn't know that it was that easy to steal $800,000 just from being in charge of the money, and she got away with it for a pretty long time which is even more surprising. I’m really glad they were able to stop her before, she would have embezzled even more. What’s really weird, is the fact that the house she lives in looks like it’s about $100,000 which probably means she was doing her best to cover it up, so no one could notice. Why steal, when you can just work really hard and actually gain that money, and not having to worry to be caught? Some, people just don’t understand business ethics and, just basic moral ethics. I believe we should have classes in Elementary, Middle and High school that stress on ethics in general, because clearly some people don’t have them. This would really impact kids because it would be something held in their brain for a really long time, such as Family Life taught. It would also benefit the world, because knowing some people don’t get taught this at home, would make more sense if they obtained useful knowledge for later on