Arlene Marchese and Karen Wright, former employees of New Jersey dental office plead guilty to steal of $200,000

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Arlene Marchese, 35, of Wayne, and Karen Wright, 44, of Wyckoff — both former employees of Belmont Dental Associates in Haledon, New Jersey — admitted to stealing $200,000 from the practice, having each worked there for more than a decade. Collusion between two long-tenured employees is a particularly effective mechanism for circumventing internal controls: each can cover for the other and validate transactions that a single employee acting alone could not rationalize.


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