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Former biz journal employee indicted for stealing

The former bookkeeper for the Central New York Business Journal was indicted Friday on charges she stole nearly $180,000 from the company and a related business over several years, according to a story in the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Reporter Jim O’Hara wrote, “Cynthia Nistico, 36, of 5448 Congleton Circle, Clay, was indicted on two counts each of second-degree grand larceny and first-degree falsifying business records.

“One of the grand larceny charges accuses her of stealing $101,000 from the CNY Business Journal from January 2001 through October 2006. The other grand larceny count accuses her of stealing $78,000 from BizEventz from August 2001 through October 2006.

“The falsifying business records charges accuse her of entering false data into the companies’ records relating to credit card information.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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