Barton County residents have waited two years for Kimberly Schlup to take responsibility for her actions.
It's not going to happen.
Ms. Schlup, 41, Deerfield, former chief finance officer at Barton County Memorial Hospital in Lamar, entered an Alford plea Tuesday in Cedar County Circuit Court in Stockton, meaning that she acknowledges that there was enough evidence to convict her, but she does not admit that she was guilty. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, March 27.
Ms. Schlup stole $77,735 from the hospital between 1999 and 2003.
She has waited two years for this case to come to a conclusion, but as I reported last August, Ms. Schlup has managed to keep busy. At that time, a reader sent me a web page, which featured Ms. Schlup attempting to interest people in something called Liberty League International. You've all heard of operations like Liberty League. Someone starts them and makes money from investors who are supposed to make money by enticing more people to join with the original founders continuing to get a percentage of each one.
As I wrote then, it didn't look right when Mr. Ponzi first introduced the scheme to the United States and it doesn't look right now.
Better Business Bureau does not come right out and call Liberty League a pyramid scheme, but it does everything but. According to the bureau's website, "This company has an unsatisfactory record with the Bureau due to a pattern of complaints. Specifically, complaints allege misrepresentation of the products or services offered by the company. Complaints also concern requests for refunds."
It's also a bad sign when the Bureau requests information from Liberty and it doesn't bother to respond. According to the bureau's report, "Prospective investors should carefully examine a multi-level sales program to be reasonably certain it is not a pyramid scheme which emphasizes recruitment of distributors rather than retail sale of the product."
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That's just not right.
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