He said the stress contributed to his heart attack.Īnd when Maureen Sullivan, an architect, went looking for answers about the $111,000 that evaporated from her accounts, she said her inquiries with the police “basically went into a black hole.” When something similar happened to Stanford Media Group, a company that sold CDs and DVDs online, Mark Gilula said he was forced to lay off employees. When Robert Meltzer, who runs gyms for children in Los Angeles, found that more than $60,000 in payroll taxes - half a year’s worth - had gone missing in 2013, it was too late.
