That’s a shitload of fajitas. If, for the sake of argument, a single fajita is worth 5 bucks, 1.2 million dollars worth of fajitas is 240,000 fajitas. I’m going to take a couple of Gaviscon now, just having thought about it.
a single fajita is worth 5 bucks
What’s a single fajita? I just made fajitas last night (and it was gooo-oood!) and it’s the definition of a hot mess!
I used to work in banking. Employees in certain positions were required each year to have a contiguous two full weeks of vacation, with no contact with the office. This is typical of banks. And the story of how this guy got caught is an example of the reason for this policy.
A 53-year-old guy steals a million bucks worth of fajitas and draws what is effectively a life sentence.
If only he’d been a politician (or a six-time bankrupt “super” businessman) he would’ve been crowned King.
Brown-man justice at work again. No civilized country has anything that remotely resembles such savage sentencing. I would say that a 3-year stretch would be ample for nonviolent property theft. Lending institutions routinely misappropriate properties worth much more but that’s OK.
Mr. Escamilla should have run, run, run for the border while he had the chance.
And I cannot be the only one here whose mouth watered at that pic of those luscious fajita fixings.
The only reason he got caught is because there was an 800-lb. fajita delivery to the juvenile center - and they don’t serve fajitas. This is Texas, so if Mr. Escamilla had simply run a scam consisting of white bread, mayonnaise, and Bibles, he would probably be sipping pina coladas in the Bahamas right now.
But if this is the kind of outrageous sentence he gets, then every Republican should be terrified of the Dems taking over. Mick Mulvaney, Ryan Zinke, Ben Carson, Scott Pruitt, and the rest should rate the guillotine for the shit they’ve pulled so far.
And yet, you can out a CIA agent and serve no jail time at all.
Too bad the thief isn’t female: AKA La Fajita Bandita.
Sounds like Republican-style government; expensive, entrepreneurial, ineffective, and ultimately illegal.
Don’t want to hire those icky public servants that might, you know, review services in case any products are walking out the door.
He should have become a derivatives broker, $1.2 million in theft would have got him a bonus at his next employer.
What I want to know is how many years has this guy been getting away with this. I also wonder where the bean counters were while this was going on and how many invoices for fajitas they would have to get before they realized something was up.
I hope they were some damn good fajitas
Au contraire, mon ami. They should rate my patented Trebutine®, a delightful trebuchet-guillotine hybrid that *Combines the brutality of a beheading with the spectacle of a pumpkin toss.*™
But, hey!, killing 29 workers through deliberately breaking worker safety laws for personal gain only gets you one year in jail!
The guy should have chosen his crimes more wisely.
maybe trump should pardon him and then hire him to head the school lunch program
Ah, the good old days, pre computers. Two week family road trip every year.
How long? Just under a decade.
Apparently it was just the meat and the guy had customers (individuals? institutions? restaurants?) lined up that he would deliver the stolen food to on the same day. The last one, the one he didn’t intercept, was for 800 lbs of meat, so we’re not talking about just not paying for his dinner.
I can’t imagine that this scam was applied only to that one item, but maybe stolen fajita meat is just easy to fence around there.