What a deal

You may have heard that Mauricio Jimenez, a former Home Depot Manager from Florida, was arrested for giving frequent shopper discounts that the Home Depot know nothing about and which cost them millions.

Jimenez

Jimenez, 48,  could stand trials for organized fraud of $50,000 or more,  and first-degree grand theft.

Apparently, he had a scheme to use "deliberate" and "systematic" fraud tactics by giving big savings on at least 4,500 unauthorized purchases from December 2023 to April 2026. The shady deals totaled around $55 million in merchandise.

Jimenez's attorney says, "There's nothing that says that he was receiving any kickbacks, like he was getting any benefit from this. It just says that he was issuing discounts to different companies.”

BUT - by building his store's sales volume, he was compensated with larger bonuses. So that's the crime they allege.

It all reminds me of the supermarket some time ago, I think it was in West Virginia, where all 11 of the cash registers rang up big happy sales every week. BUT - it turned out, they were only supposed to have 10 registers. The manager had come up with an extra, set it up, and whatever that extra cashbox took in was all gravy for the manager. 

You have to hope that when he got to prison, they put lots of nice gravy on his meatloaf dinner.

There are as many crooked schemes as there are crooks, and very few of them work as intended. But they keep trying!