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A logistics executive at the heart of one of the US’s most venerable retailers has admitted embezzling some $3.5m from his employer.
Rudy Rampertab, 46, spent 22 years at Macy’s, and from 1998 to the beginning of 2011 worked at the company’s distribution centre in Carson, California, where he supervised the movement of merchandise to distribution centres throughout the country.
The court in Ohio heard how in July 2010, Suraj Patel, described as Mr Rampertab’s “domestic partner” – they shared residences in California and Florida – established three logistics companies, SAP ...
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Tristan Johnstad
August 28, 2016 at 4:58 pmFannin, who had been spared jail three times in five years for a series of previous thefts, was imprisoned for 16 weeks.