r/Eugene • u/LiLiandThree • 2d ago
Eugene Weekly--What happened?
Was the embezzlement case from about a year ago ever concluded? Have heard it was a high level employee but there's been no news of repercussion. Anyone know?
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u/emmet80 2d ago
They just published an update day before yesterday: https://eugeneweekly.com/2025/01/02/slant-so-that-happened/
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u/10lbMustache 2d ago
Elisha and Brandon Young
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u/doily0 2d ago
Worked with them at Country Fair and also went through Brandon a lot to purchase ads for my clients. At the time Brandon was talking about how he and his wife were going to take over the weekly and they'd be running it in a few years. To me it sounded like hippie dreamer talk... What a twist when I heard the news. I'm very interested for when action gets taken. He was definitely in on it just as much as his wife.
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u/Sada_Abe1 2d ago
The woman's husband had to have been in on it too. There's no way in hell he didn't know about it. But I think they're pretending he didn't so one of them stays out of jail to raise their kidkids.
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u/10lbMustache 2d ago
Brandon 100% was in on it. The night before we found out he was clearing shit out of her office.
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u/TheNachoSupreme 2d ago
It's possible that she told him at the culmination, and he didn't know throughout.
Let's not make statements without proof. Sincerely held beliefs are not enough
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u/Major-Rub-Me 2d ago
Ever read a history book? Every single one is based on statements without proof. Reading between the lines is sometimes necessary.
Charlemagne beheaded 4500 Saxons in one week in 802, I don't have 4500 of their heads to.provd it to you but, uh, I don't disbelieve it.
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u/crazyscottish 2d ago
True story
I once worked at a great restaurant. We all made money. Bartenders. Watiers. The music.
Then the “chef” was given money to spend on the Christmas party. He took that money and ran.
Yeah. He’s in prison now. But
It ruined that restaurant.
The owner crashed. Divorced his wife. We all left. The community hated us.
It only takes one mother fucker being mother fuckerey. To fuck up everything.
Tony? If you’re reading this? You were the best boss I ever had. And Fück that guy
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u/Useful-Ad-2409 2d ago
My question is why are they selling to a person who was looking at books every week as publisher and didn’t catch it after more than a year?
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u/LiLiandThree 2d ago
As I recall, their excuse was that during Covid the owners decided to keep a lower profile and not check on what their employees were doing as much. I presume so as to isolate and not get COVID.
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u/EUGsk8rBoi42p 2d ago
What's wild is they claimed to know who it was pretty quick, like their article said "the accountant" was an ex cokehead who relapsed and stole all the money to leave the country. Seems odd it would take over a year to gather evidence from such a cut and dry case if nobody else was involved? With the owner dying, seems like there ought to be a hold on the company's transfer to the editor until the case is truly resolved.
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u/Hannibal-Lecter-puns 2d ago
They have to document exactly how it was stolen, not just that it was.
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u/mrSalamander 2d ago
A prosecutor is going to want to know exactly how much was taken also. To know the severity of the crime and what punishment to recommend
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u/snappyhome 2d ago
eugeneweekly.com/2024/04/04/stung/
They did a write up about it in April - criminal proceedings were ongoing at that point and likely still are (big criminal prosecutions with tons of accounting data to go through take forever).