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If you want to be a stripper in Florida you have to have a stripper’s license (yes, that’s a thing), and in order to get one you have to pay a $75 fee. Well, a Palm Beach County clerk who was supposed to process those fees didn’t process them. Instead she pocketed every single dime of it.
Anita Pedemey was recently arrested for stealing $27,350 in stripper fees because according to her she “needed the money at home. “I’ve been taking money; stealing money from the Adult Entertainment licenses for about six months,” Pedemey said in the police report. “My husband was spending a lot of money in Home Depot. I knew it was wrong.”
That’s right, folks. Pedemey did all this because her dopey husband was spending a tad too much at his local Home Depot.
A co-worker of Pedemey first noticed something wrong November 15 when she told a supervisor that dancers were coming in and forms were being filled out but cash being collected by Pedemey was missing. the arrest report said. The co-worker went to her supervisor who then began investigating. Two days later, Pedemey went to supervisors on her own and told them she messed up.
It all kicked off, according to Pedemey, when she became responsible for reporting the fees after the woman originally responsible got a new job. And that’s when Pedemy “got to work,” bagging thousands of dollars for herself.
Pedemey now faces grand theft, fraud and misconduct charges.
