Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

embezzlement OR larceny?

Sales agent#1 call a customer to sell a product, the customer wants to call back to purchase.

The sales agent#1 gives the customer a number to sales agent#2 that's trusted to tell sale agent#1 to call the customer to make the sale.

Instead sales agent#2 tell the customer a lie that he don't know sales agent#1 and makes the sale

to the customer without telling sales agent#1.


Asked on 3/12/11, 12:36 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

Christine McCall License Advocates Law Group

Neither embezzlement nor larceny. It was a lie, and lots of lies happen in business and in sales. Many of them are not redressable in criminal courts. It may be a violation of the employer's work rules and should be pursued in that arena.

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Answered on 3/16/11, 9:49 am


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