{"id":10326,"date":"2008-12-24T04:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/frys_electronics_executive_accused_of_embezzling\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T04:05:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T04:05:14","slug":"frys_electronics_executive_accused_of_embezzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"Fry&#39;s Electronics executive accused of embezzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Ferrari-driving vice president of Fry&#8217;s Electronics Inc. who was allegedly such a heavyweight gambler that casinos chartered private planes to fly him to Las Vegas has been arrested on charges he embezzled more than $65 million from the retailer to fuel his lavish lifestyle and pay off debts.<\/p>\n<p>Ausaf Umar Siddiqui is accused by the IRS of concocting a scheme in which he cut side deals with some of Fry&#8217;s suppliers, buying their goods at higher prices and in greater quantities than normal in exchange for kickbacks of up to 31 percent of the sales price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/12\/23\/MN4H14TLUI.DTL\">Yuck. Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ferrari-driving vice president of Fry&#8217;s Electronics Inc. who was allegedly such a heavyweight gambler that casinos chartered private planes to fly him to Las Vegas has been arrested on charges he embezzled more than $65 million from the retailer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10326\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,168,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}