[MicroBob]

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It's still a felony, but if I had the chance to actually help my friend out a great deal, provided I believed this was truly isolated, I would definitely do it.

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How are you going to have any idea whether this is 'truly isolated' or not?
He can be all whiny and apologetic and "it was really stupid I know. I super-duper promise to never do it again because I've learned my lesson. blah blah blah" but when somebody steals 6-freaking-K regardless of whatever it was that led him to do it then I think one has to assume the chances of doing something similar again are somewhat high even if he himself believes that he is giving it up for good.


Do you see the point here?
It's not like he 'accidentally' messed up and created this situation.
If he had a lapse in judgement and just one day took $100 out of the till for himself then that's a pretty lousy thing to do but it's hardly the end of the world....especially if it was more of a temptation spur-of-the-moment type thing as opposed to something pre-planned imo.

But I'm guessing that his stealing $6k was a few different incidents over time. It wasn't even a one-time thing.
He did it over and over until he finally got caught.
So even this specific situation itself wasn't an isolated incident most likely.