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I moved closer to my foam-covered desk, opening the drawers and finding the petty-cash box intact and the village checkbook still locked up tight.

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

I moved closer to my foam-covered desk, opening the drawers and finding the petty-cash box intact and the village checkbook still locked up tight.

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

By treating the patent office as a petty-cash drawer, Congress has starved it of funds and created a backlog of 1.2 million patent applications waiting for examination.

A Labor Day Message for President Obama Henry R. Nothhaft 2011

A Department of Education petty-cash bank account was quietly tapped for more than $640,000 by a group of people who didn't even work for the agency, according to a report released Thursday by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District.

Schools' Petty Cash Tapped for $640,000 2010

A spokesman for the Department of Education, Danny Kanner, said that once it became aware of the activities, in February of 2007, "we put in place a tight set of controls and processes to ensure the security of petty-cash accounts."

Schools' Petty Cash Tapped for $640,000 2010

Employee fraud -- from check-forgery schemes to petty-cash theft -- tends to rise during tough economic times, when workers are feeling financial pressure in their personal lives, experts say.

Small Businesses Face More Fraud in Downturn 2009

Their instincts were correct: NEWSWEEK sources say Cornelius photocopied office financial records when other office employees were not around, eventually finding, according to one source, $70,000 in checks written in $2,000 to $5,000 amounts to the petty-cash fund with no corroborating paperwork.

Judgment Calls 2008

Once a kind of petty-cash drawer for congressmen to quickly hand out aid after floods and storms, FEMA had improved in the 1990s in the Clinton administration.

How Bush Blew It 2008

The dollar becomes the petty-cash currency of the world, which only increases the sales to foreign owners, lowers the prices they pay and powers their increasing control over our assets, workers and sovereignty.

Born in the USA, Sold to Foreign Buyers 2008

The audit findings were damaging-shoddy paperwork, poor billing, $18,200 in suspicious checks written to the petty-cash fund-but hardly the stuff of smoking guns for an office that handled more than $11 million in funds from news organizations over the last 16 months.

Judgment Calls 2008