{"id":4353,"date":"2019-11-18T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2019-11-18T18:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:00:44","slug":"the-thing-about-stealing-plan-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"The thing about stealing plan assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been an ERISA attorney for 21 years now and the biggest thing that amazes me is when a fiduciary to a plan steals money from a 401(k) plan. I\u2019ve seen plan sponsors do it, I\u2019ve seen employees do it, and I\u2019ve seen plan providers do it. I knew Matt Hutcheson and Jeff Richie.<\/p>\n<p>What amazes me about it is that eventually if you steal, you will be found out. Stealing millions or even thousands of dollars will be eventually detected. You have a better shot of wearing pantyhose on your head and robbing a bank in getting away with it than stealing from a 401(k) trust where your fingerprints will be everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>So don\u2019t steal, it will never work out.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been an ERISA attorney for 21 years now and the biggest thing that amazes me is when a fiduciary to a plan steals money from a 401(k) plan. I\u2019ve seen plan sponsors do it, I\u2019ve seen employees do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=4353\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}