<story><title>How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings</title><url>https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28078881/how-nba-executive-jeff-david-stole-13-million-sacramento-kings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilamont</author><text>He would have gotten away with it if it weren&amp;#x27;t for the HR exec seeing a red flag. Makes you wonder how many other frauds are never discovered.&lt;p&gt;One other thing: These types of face-to-face, &amp;quot;close on a handshake&amp;quot; negotiations are really open to various types of fraud. I was thinking about this when listening to a friend discussing how he had negotiated a $12,000 discount for his child&amp;#x27;s base college tuition, by talking over the phone with someone in the college admissions office. Or a commercial real-estate deal that I participated in some years ago that involved several rounds of negotiation. If one or both sides of these transactions wanted to extract some financial benefit &amp;quot;on the side,&amp;quot; it would be so easy to do it ... which leads me to believe it happens all the time, anti-fraud laws and signed declarations be damned.</text></comment>
<story><title>How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramento Kings</title><url>https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28078881/how-nba-executive-jeff-david-stole-13-million-sacramento-kings</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zlast</author><text>The craziest thing about this is that if Jeff didn&amp;#x27;t conduct all his (illegal) business on his work laptop, he may never have been caught. And, the only reason HR decided to look at his laptop was to find &amp;quot;a copy of a commission structure to build out the corporate sales team&amp;quot; that Jeff was supposed to leave behind before he left for another job.</text></comment>