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A businessman who stole more than half a million pounds from charitable donations has been ordered to pay back just £1,620 after he blew the fortune on luxury holidays.

Harris Polak, 54, organised bucket collections outside supermarkets in Merseyside for a number of charities, including Cancer Relief UK, raising a total of £655,000 between 2007 and 2011.

But instead of sending the money from the buckets back to the charities he claimed to be working for, Polak, from Childwall near Liverpool, used it to pay for luxury holidays, a car and his mortgage.
 
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tay said:
A businessman who stole more than half a million pounds from charitable donations has been ordered to pay back just £1,620 after he blew the fortune on luxury holidays.

Harris Polak, 54, organised bucket collections outside supermarkets in Merseyside for a number of charities, including Cancer Relief UK, raising a total of £655,000 between 2007 and 2011.

But instead of sending the money from the buckets back to the charities he claimed to be working for, Polak, from Childwall near Liverpool, used it to pay for luxury holidays, a car and his mortgage.
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Tough to get blood out of a stone and sending him to jail just exacerbates the situation, but if he keeps it up someone will kill him.
 
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BornRuff said:
Man who stole £655,000 from charity ordered to pay back just £1,620 | Mail Online

Lol, one or two details have been omitted from the original post.

The guy is serving a 45 month sentence for his crime.

The £1,620 figure is not all that the judge saw fit to make him pay back. It is the value of all of his assets that they could find and force him to sell.
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Moral is if you steal it -- spend it quickly. And enjoy a 3 years of free room and board (accounting for parole).
 
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tay said:
A businessman who stole more than half a million pounds from charitable donations has been ordered to pay back just £1,620 after he blew the fortune on luxury holidays.

Harris Polak, 54, organised bucket collections outside supermarkets in Merseyside for a number of charities, including Cancer Relief UK, raising a total of £655,000 between 2007 and 2011.

But instead of sending the money from the buckets back to the charities he claimed to be working for, Polak, from Childwall near Liverpool, used it to pay for luxury holidays, a car and his mortgage.
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Sadly that's nothing new.

Fraudster who exploited sick children sent back to jail | Ontario | News | Toronto Sun

I think for purposes such as this they should bring back a form of indentured servitude. Garnish the bastards til the cows come home.

Zipperfish said:
I've been doing this for years. It's a great way to raise money.
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Not even remotely funny.
 
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JLM said:
I'd like to see the bastard get three years in jail spent breaking rocks for 12 hours a day with a 12 lb. hammer. -:) And that's for 7 days a week.
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I'd rather see restitution, leave the prisons for the truly violent and dangerous. Besides, making them earn and then pay all that money back would really be hitting them where it hurts, so it meets the conditions of punishment as well.
 
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SLM said:
I'd rather see restitution, leave the prisons for the truly violent and dangerous. Besides, making them earn and then pay all that money back would really be hitting them where it hurts, so it meets the conditions of punishment as well.
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You make a good point there, maybe have him show up at a rock quarry every day for 12 hours of rock breaking.
 
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SLM said:
I'd rather see restitution, leave the prisons for the truly violent and dangerous. Besides, making them earn and then pay all that money back would really be hitting them where it hurts, so it meets the conditions of punishment as well.
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Making them break rocks just for punishment is senseless. But I'm sure there is some economically productive work they could do to pay it back. If it can just be deducted from their income, great, with an agreement that if they leave the country they must continue to contribute. If not, prison it is where we can supervise the work, but again, not busy work but actuall economically productive work.
 
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JLM said:
Not if it makes them think twice about reoffending.
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Economically productive work could do the same and also help pay for the cost of incarceration or, if they aren't imprisoned, then contribute to the victims.
 
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L Gilbert said:
Yeah, I'm also big on the payback idea as opposed to lengthy prison terms and exercise routines such as breaking rocks.
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It's amazing what some would be able to do with one of those fancy schmancy ankle bracelets. I'm particularly in favour of this type of consequence for crimes that scam people out of a lot of money, but any non-violent crime could be a contender. I think if someone is violent then you need the prisons to protect society from those individuals.

At least that's the way I'd do it if I were Queen of the Universe. :D
 
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