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In Taiwan, where compa- nies are required to give newlyweds eight days of paid leave, an unnamed bank employee in Taipei used a loophole in the law to claim 32 days of leave over 37 days last year, reported Agence France-Presse on April 21.
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“I thought, this is insane,” McBride said, but prosecutors accused her of “willfully, un-
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bezzle(ing)” the tape, valued at $58.59, according to court documents.
The man and his wife got married four times and di- vorced three times, claiming eight days of leave for each wedding in order to maximize the length of their honeymoon. The bank complained to the city labor department, which sided with the employee and fined the bank about $670 for violating the regulation, spark- ing public criticism.
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The Washington Post re- ported McBride had no mem- ory of renting the tape, but guessed the man she lived with at the time must have gotten it for his two young daughters. On April 23, prosecuters in Norman said they would drop the charge and expunge Mc- Bride’s record.
The labor department later revoked the fine “to recognize a mistake and improve,” it said.
reveal one filled with blood, one with needles and a third with worms, according to the report. She instructed the man to bring her all the money he had so she could bless it and multiply it at her temple in Fort Myers, promising to return it the next day, police said, but Rosalia hasn’t been seen since.
was wanted there on a charge of felony embezzlement for failing to return a VHS tape of Sabrina the Teenage Witch to a video store in Norman in1999.
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Police have identified more victims in the course of their ongoing investigation.
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Police in Naples, Flori- da, are looking for a woman identified only as “Rosalia,” a self-described witch who is suspected of swindling more than $100,000 from at least 10 victims.
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Caron McBride, 52, applied to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to change her name on her driver’s license after getting married in No- vember, and was told to call the Cleveland County District Attorney’s office in Oklaho- ma, where she learned she
Authorities were first alert- ed to the scam on March 14 when a man called to report that Rosalia had disappeared with $29,500 of his money, ac- cording to a police report. The man said he had responded to a flier advertising Rosalia’s “witchcraft services,” WB- BH-TV reported.
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