What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TX I have a very good friend who worked as a manager for fast food resturant for about 10 years. A couple of years ago she she started taking money and fudging deposit slips. Her store had computer problems and there hasnt been any backup as to what sales and/or deposits should have been. She recently quit working there but I worry that they company will eventually figure out what she has done. She states that the ex-manager whose place she took is the one that showed her how to do it and that she found out other managers at other stores were doing the same thing. To me stealing is stealing. But she states that what she did is embezzelment and that is a federal crime and that since she no longer works for that company she cant get in trouble even if they figure it out. Is that true? Is it possible to NOT get in trouble for a theft if its found out months/years later? I worry about this problem so much she has a small child who I babysit and I wonder what will happen.