A local weekly newspaper in Oregon was forced to lay off its entire staff three days before Christmas after one of its employees allegedly embezzled tens of thousands of dollars.
Camilla Mortenson, The Eugene Weekly’s editor-in-chief, revealed in a letter to readers that the publication had to abruptly stop printing due to its current financial troubles. Ms Mortenson told The New York Times that the employee accused of running the embezzling scheme took money from accounts set up to pay employees’ retirement and left bills of up to $70,000 to the newspaper’s printer.
