Library Director Given Jail Time for Stealing Funds to Fuel Mobile App Addiction

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An Utah Library Director was sentenced to 30 days in the slammer for stealing library funds to pay for his addiction to the mobile app "Game of War." Adam Winger was convicted of felony theft and forgery after he spent $89,000 of library funding on the video game by purchasing Amazon, iTunes and Google Play gift cards with North Logan City credit cards. He then converted those into Amazon coins to pay for his in-game purchases.

Winger has agreed to pay $78,000 in restitution by a date to be determined at his sentencing which is scheduled for Aug. 13. If he hasn't paid the debt by the determined date, Winger will have to repay the full $89,000.
 
I don't know how long he was stealing money, but even if it's over the entire 3 years he was there, that's 30k/year on a fucking game. WTF?


risc said:
Um, wtf... Agreed to only pay 87.64% back plus 30 days in jail for fraud?
How about pay 110% back and 6 months in jail, or else you have to pay 200% back and 6 months in jail.
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My guess is it's because getting the money back quickly is worth giving up 13%. However, my guess is that the guy is going to have a tough time paying back 78k quickly.

That said, 30 days seems ridiculously short given how much he stole.
 
I think it's probably most efficient this way. Pleading guilty - relatively few funds have to be spent to resolve the issue. I'd rather the guy be out looking for a job to pay restitution than using government resources sitting in jail.
 
WTF? You'd never get $87,000 if you robbed a bank, but you'd sure as shit get 10 years if you were caught. I realize it's not the same crime, but six months seems weak.

I can't believe he spent that much on Game of War, especially if he's buying gift cards. Call me a skeptic, but I'm betting some forensic accounting will show that the gift cards haven't been redeemed, or they've been redeemed / gifted for many different things.

Blaming it on Game of War sounds like a way to claim it was a mental addiction where the game company preyed on a depressed personality. I know some snowflakes who would believe that it's theft if you use stolen money to buy yourself stuff, but it's not really theft if you use stolen money to buy yourself some relief from the awful pain of your life. "It's not my fault, I did it because I was going through a problem period, and Game of War's predatory practices brought me temporary but false enjoyment."

I don't have a shred of evidence, of course, but I'd want to look for the evidence, and if I found it, I'd want him to do hard time for an $87,000 theft.
 
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seanreisk said:
WTF? You'd never get $87,000 if you robbed a bank,
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Well certainly not if you're a complete imbecile who only goes for the cash drawers. You do it right, you'll get more than $87k. Besides as you mentioned not hte same crime, one is you actively going after something which isn't yours, in his case he used credit cards issued by the city to him and he just used them in a manner not consistent with how he should. If anything it shows that there's very little accountability for these sorts of things, I mean 3 years before he was caught? If there were regular audits he should have been caught after a couple weeks and maybe having using a couple hundred bucks, however him thinking he can get away with year after year because no on caught him probably made him get bolder near the end.
 
nilepez said:
I don't know how long he was stealing money, but even if it's over the entire 3 years he was there, that's 30k/year on a fucking game. WTF?
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This is why you have phone games racking in millions.
There are many people who spend thousands a year on a single game.

I've spend zero on games/apps for my phone.
Maybe if there was something worth it, I might be tempted to spend $10 or $20, but I have yet to see anything worth spend even $1 on.
 
whats sad is none of that shit he used stolen funds on was even worth the years his ass will be in legal limbo for.

I have a friend that was addicted to some mobile game and he admitted he had spent like 2500 dollars on it. That weekend I helped him out and gave him the modded apk for that game. He stopped playing a few days later after he had unlimited whatever it was and thanked me.
 
SixFootDuo said:
whats sad is none of that shit he used stolen funds on was even worth the years his ass will be in legal limbo for.

I have a friend that was addicted to some mobile game and he admitted he had spent like 2500 dollars on it. That weekend I helped him out and gave him the modded apk for that game. He stopped playing a few days later after he had unlimited whatever it was and thanked me.
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That is absolutely the best way to kill the fun out of the addiction.

I miss the days of buy the game for 40-50 bucks and that was it. No addons, no fucking store!
 
For all that effort to steal public funds he should have been a school district administration (bloat) employee.
 
What a great way to get fired from a job where it's near impossible to get fired, and lose a decent pension in the process.
 
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I wonder if this would have been as big a story if he had spent the money on pr0n or clothes?
 
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