Fullerton Employee Arrested for Embezzling $35,000
The OC Register is reporting that the former risk manager for the city of Fullerton was arrested today and charged with running an embezzlement scheme and stealing over $35,00 of public funds.
According to the story, Phillips is accused of processing false injury claims filed against city workers on behalf of his friends. Phillips apparently had the authority to approve the claims and authorize payment himself. He has been charged with 10 felonies and is out on $50,000 bail.
Of course this type of thing won’t sit well with the local critics, especially in the awakened age of Bell. Questions abound. For instance, who hired this guy? What else did he steal? Who else is stealing? Why did he have the sole authority to pay fraudulent claims? And finally, was the arrest intentionally delayed until two days after the election, in order to protect the public image of former public employees, two of whom were running for office?
We’ll probably never know the answers to all of these burning questions, but that won’t stop us from asking.
DARRYL PHILLIPS FOR FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL, 2012!
In this case it looks like the city audit staff caught this scam in it’s early stages. Got to give credit where credit is due.
Hey, Hollis, that article didn’t say anything about “city audit staff” doing anything. Do you know more about this incident that you’d like share?
martin b is right. Why was this hushed throughout the election campaign? The cops leaked the fake Norby spouse abuse BS the next day!
And speaking of the cops, how’s that case of sign theft against my former owner Roland Chi going?
Darryl’s big mistake was not making big contributions to DA Rack like my former boss did. A little bit goes a long way!
Yes Hollis, let’s congratulate a couple of staff members for actually doing their jobs. While we’re at it, let’s commend the brave police officers who put handcuffs on the risk manager, too. And the court clerk who processed the paperwork. And the guy at the bank who managed to make photocopies of the checks for the DA.
Now that we’re done with that BS, let’s talk about the actual problem. I’d like to know what in the hell is going on in city hall, and how do clowns like this get hired in the first place?
Hey I separated my shoulder on the bike trail last year. Can I turn in a claim? hahahaha
Every company has a thief. Glad they got this one early on. Ask the private sector what their “shrinkage” factor is. That is employee theft plus shoplifting. It usually runs 2-3% or more. So if the City has a $250,000,000 budget and it loses $35,000, which is 1/10,000 of the total budget. It looks like they are doing a pretty good job.
Ask Tony Florentine how much his employees steal from him, or Jack Franklyn…
Uh, nobody at my office can write a check for $10,000 without anybody asking questions. They’re lucky the audit department caught it, but it shouldn’t have gotten that far.
I don’t care if it was a thousand dollars that’s my money! That’s money that was stolen from me by the government. It was money I could have used to pay rent, buy my kids braces, or perhaps by a new car! This guy should have never had that much authority! Time to clean house! Fire the city staff and start over! If they don’t get to retirement then they’ll have to wait a while to collect more of my tax money!
I know a good lawyer for this guy, hes from Fullerton too.
I hear Doug Chaffee is a lawyer
yeah, but this guy needs a good ol’ fashion pedophile defendin defense lawyer.
Compton it sounds like the staff locked this case up so there was nothing the cops could do to screw it up or make hay for a good lawyer. Maybe the city staff could finish off the investigation on the sign stealing case and we could have a quick resolution to that as well.
oh no you still here. you bad boy and you wet bed
I cant wait to see what Whitaker fights for on the pension nightmare! Oh compton what will you say then?
“Compton” won’t be around much longer.
BTW, I heard Hairball Assclown Sidhu was loadin’ up the truck and movin’ back to Beverlee. Hills that is.
Attacking another man of color, I see. Racist site!
approve the claims and authorize payments….Who set that up??… duah
“Who else is stealing?”
How dare you suggest that Fullerton employees would steal from the taxpayer!
I wonder if anyone outside of city hall takes a look at all of the claims that the city pays out every year. How many are there, and how many crap claims are paid out just to avoid the cost of litigation?
will our civic leaders look closely at mr phillips’ close friends at city hall and spell c-o-l-l-u-s-i-o-n? will our civic leaders ponder why mr phillips was hired? what were his qualifications, experience and who supported/pushed for him to be hired by the city. and here I expose my ignorance, what is a risk manager and why can’t a manager employed by the city handle its risks by him or herself? Until now, I never knew their existed a risk manager job title
Little crimes are prosecuted. Big crimes are policy.
Perhaps I’m not reading carefully enough.
The thief is identified as a FORMER employee of Fullerton. Does that mean he pulled these scams-crimes AFTER he left his city job, or were these crimes committed when he worked for the city and then were uncovered after he left?
And my guess at the answer to the question posed by Van get… is that a “Risk Manager” is basically an employee who works with insurance matters, e.g. claims, getting bids from insurance carriers, etc.
In the “best case” this guy was fired or left city employment and then perpetrated the frauds based on papers and records and forms and procedures which he knew, obtained, learned from back when he was working for the city, and then someone in the city audit staff noticed his name popping up on paperwork processed after he was gone.
The article said he was approving claims he cooked up. He was an employee until August so presumably was quietly fired and charges were filed.
But boy was that kept quiet by the same cops that were happy to leak a trumped up charge against Norby.
Rain, you are way off. The article says the crimes were committed in the course of his employment. He resigned after he was confronted with the allegations.
Before joining Fullerton, Phillips worked for ICRMA, a pool of local Cities, INCLUDING THE CITY OF BELL. Guess that is where he learned his trade…..
Rain, the City probably wanted to hold off prosecutions until after the elections.
Did he also process Bankhead’s disability claim?
joe, is that a threat?
No. That’s a prediction.
Of course it’s a prediction, Joe = admin = fraud
He can ban whatever name he wants to, for all the good it’ll do him.
This is what Tony gets when he practices the politics of hate and venom. It will turn on you eventually. You can’t even salvage the mantle of being about legitimate political commentary. You and all your aliases and your “fans” are just a little pack of buffoons.
You hate Pam Keller, you hate Sharon Quirk-Silva (most of the time), you hate Bankhead, you hate Jones, you hate McKinley, you hate EVERYONE.
And the people you choose not to hate? Shawn Nelson and Chris Norby? Norby, consummate trough feeder, but he’s YOUR trough feeder, so it’s ok. Nelson, a self-important, unprincipled liar, but he’s YOUR liar, so it’s ok.
Hey RJA did you catch the sign thief yet? Man you guys are slow. Even when amateurs who don’t get 3@50 give you all the facts!
Chuckles leading to guffaws…
Hey, Real John…
I am aware that Norby made his career as a public high school teacher (with much acclaim) and simultaneously served many years on our city council, then matriculated to County Supervisor and got a shot at State Assembly and won over supposed “favorites.” All public service jobs but not really the classic “trough feeder” stuff as I guess at a definition of that term.
BUT, I do not know of, or understand your accusations against Nelson.
I’ll skip “self-important” (whatever that is supposed to mean), but “unprincipled liar” PLEASE inform me regarding his lack of principles and particularly his “lies” – and get as specific as possible so that I can check it out and/or ask him about it.
This blog (from the admin side) provides a wealth of factual information about candidates which is very important and which USED TO BE the job of the free press – before they became part of the Atheist, Leftist, anti-Man, anti-Family, Democrat-Communist Party of America.
Heh heh.
That’s Supervisor Nelson to you. he kicked the holy crap out your boy union lackey Sidhu in every precinct in the 4th District.
Say goodnight, hairball. Say good night Real John. Bleed the Freak is already waiting for you.
Bleat,
You usually wait until I post something to surface. Maybe Tony is getting his characters confused and can’t keep up with all of his fans.
Now that all this election mess is over, can we do something positive and start a Tony Bushala fan Club? I mean a club besides the one that already exist in his mind.
What was the hit count this month? Inquiring minds want to know.
Tony, how about running for city council next go around? We’d love to have you on the dais. All of us here in Fullerton could look at you all the time and admire all the hard work you do.
You could stick it to all the “union thugs” that threaten you.
You could do so much to make, “the town I live in” so much better.
Will you do it please? Please, pretty please, with a bag of pot on top? You are right on everything and everyone else is so wrong. You are our hero. You could do what your messiah, Shawn Nelson couldn’t do. He got your money and support and moved on.
But if you win, you realize that your buddies, Joe-Joe, Jan Flory’s Dog, Bleat and the host of characters your are, don’t get to sit with you and don’t get to vote. It will have to be only you, our savior and master.
You are Bushala and you deserve.
I did wait. You and realjohnadams are the same idiot.
Joe is slumlord, he deserves
Wow! I wish I was a slum lord!
I like you Joe!
Tony I had a miake believe friend when I was 6. Time to grow up because it’s very pathetic having a slumlord-prejurer write back and forth to himself patting himself on the back. Nutball slumlord
Another GED cop shares his writing skills. Or compton.
Perjurer Anon? What is exactly the untrue statement Tony has told while under oath?
Hollis read the article/blog on the OC Liberal regarding Tony’s voting address prio to this election. He has no problem calling others perjurers for living elsewhere but it doesn’t apply to him.
Bushala votes provisionally. Get over it .
Tony you need a flow chart since your answering under Sipowicz alias for something directed at you. Now I know that you, Joe, jan Flory’s Dog, Bleet and a host of others are the same person but most others believe that you are just admin when we know thats not true.