Motive...

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If indeed the three tellers in the Airways Auto Tag agency mess were framed and used as scapegoats, why would someone do such a thing?  Remember, this is a purely hypothetical situation, like we've said before, the only things we know for sure about this story is that there were tens of thousands of dollars missing from the tag agency and that after about an hour long investigation, three tellers from the tag agency were arrested and charged with theft.  So what would be the motive for framing these girls if they didn't steal the money?  Let's begin by checking the definition of "motive"...

mo·tive

   [moh-tiv]  Show IPA noun, adjective, verb,-tived, -tiv·ing.

noun

1.

something that causes a person to act in a certain way, doa certain thing, etc.; incentive.

2.

the goal or object of a person's actions: Her motive wasrevenge.

Ok, so what would be the motive behind framing the tag agency tellers if they really didn't steal the money?  The most obvious answer would be to cover up someone else's wrong doing and to deflect the attention away from the real culprit.  Throughout this story, we've mentioned time and time again how improbable it would be for this much money to go missing from such a small operation, especially in an agency with such tight controls and managerial oversight.  Regardless, once again it's the tag agency owner's own statements that are the most damning, here's another excerpt of her testimony during an unemployment hearing for one of the fired employee's...

Wow, that's a pretty shitty situation, all sorts of money missing from your business, government after you to pay them the taxes you collected on their behalf, etc.  You have to sympathize with the owner of this tag agency, especially when all this money was missing in December of all months.  Her assertions of not being able to figure out what was going on seem slightly suspect, after all, didn't we learn yesterday that the owner of the tag agency also owned the company that created the accounting software they used in the tag agency?  She goes on to say...

There you have it, the poor tag agency owner, Ileana Martinez de Castro, at wits end and ready to walk away from the tag agency unable to figure out where tens of thousands of dollars had gone missing.  What a mess, her back against the wall, her little business in jeopardy, etc.  What to do?


Once again, let me remind you that we're not accusing anyone of doing anything, but consider this for a moment, based on what we've just read from the tag agency owner's testimony, doesn't she have the perfect motive for setting up the three tellers to take the fall for the missing money?  Think about that for now, so far we've taken everything the tag agency owner has told us as the truth, at this point we have no reason to not believe her, especially since she's the wife of the City of South Miami's Police Chief, right?  Right?