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OUR VIEW: In desperate times

Published January 7, 2009, 10:21 pm, The Standard-Times

Crimes of opportunity and desperation. Such are the actions depicted in sad headlines this week about four separate cases of alleged embezzlement from New Bedford PTOs. Money began to go missing from two parent-teacher organizations in 2003, the other...

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