9. Waronek owned and operated a trucking rig, transporting goods for L.T.L. Peri

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9. Waronek owned and operated a trucking rig, transporting goods for L.T.L. Perishables, Inc., of St. Paul, Minnesota. He accepted an offer to haul a trailer load of beef from Illini Beef Packers, Inc., in Joslin, Illinois, to Midtown Packing Company in New York City. After his truck was loaded with ninety-five fore- quarters and ninety-five hindquarters of beef in Joslin, Waronek drove north to his home in Watertown, Wisconsin, rather than east to New York. While in Watertown, he asked employees of the Royal Meat Company to butcher and prepare four hindquarters of beef-two for himself and two for his friends. He also offered to sell ten hindquarters to one employee of the company at an alarm ingly reduced rate. The suspicious employee contacted the author- ities, who told him to proceed with the deal. When Waronek arrived in New York with his load short nineteen hindquarters, Waronek telephoned L.T.L. Perishables in St. Paul. He notified them "that he was short nineteen hindquarters, that he knew where the beef went, and that he would make good on it out of future settlements." L.T.L. told him to contact the New York police, but he failed to do so. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and indicted for the embezzle- ment of goods moving in interstate commerce. Explain whether Waronek was guilty of the crime of embezzlement.

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Yes Waroneck was guilty of the crime of embezzlement. He as an employee was trusted to carry hindqaurters of beef from Illinois to New York but he used them for his own benefit. He was entrusted this those hindquarters. Embezzlement means theft/larceny of assets by person who is being trusted to keep them. Since he was short nineteen hindquarters because of using for person gains, he will be held gulity of embezzlement.

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