What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? Ohio
Myself and several other people had an acquaintance that was recently caught for abusing the company credit card. It turns out that since the year 2000 she was making unauthorized purchases on it some of which included gifts, mainly electronics, given to a number of us. In an effort to stay out of jail she is attempting to make full restitution. As part of this attempt she is requesting that all gifts be returned. In my case a DVD player and a camera given to me over two years ago on two separate occasions.
I'm guessing this is not relevant but we in turn gave gifts to her of equal worth that are not being offered back (we paid for ours legally).
My question is, and I'm asking for some others involved also, if we refuse to return the gifts or no longer possess them are we criminally liable for them? At the time they were given the person abusing the credit card was making payments on the card via deductions from her check although they in no way came close to the amounts owed. As time went on she stopped making any pretense of payments and just ran up huge amounts of debt on the card and as I mentioned eventually got caught.
Morally we feel they should be returned but we also wonder if the police can confiscate them and possibly charge us with crimes if they are not returned.
I would appreciate any meaningful feedback.
Myself and several other people had an acquaintance that was recently caught for abusing the company credit card. It turns out that since the year 2000 she was making unauthorized purchases on it some of which included gifts, mainly electronics, given to a number of us. In an effort to stay out of jail she is attempting to make full restitution. As part of this attempt she is requesting that all gifts be returned. In my case a DVD player and a camera given to me over two years ago on two separate occasions.
I'm guessing this is not relevant but we in turn gave gifts to her of equal worth that are not being offered back (we paid for ours legally).
My question is, and I'm asking for some others involved also, if we refuse to return the gifts or no longer possess them are we criminally liable for them? At the time they were given the person abusing the credit card was making payments on the card via deductions from her check although they in no way came close to the amounts owed. As time went on she stopped making any pretense of payments and just ran up huge amounts of debt on the card and as I mentioned eventually got caught.
Morally we feel they should be returned but we also wonder if the police can confiscate them and possibly charge us with crimes if they are not returned.
I would appreciate any meaningful feedback.