{"id":85148,"date":"2026-02-18T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85148"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:09:55","slug":"wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-council-worker-stole-nearly-900k-for-luxury-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/18\/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing-council-worker-stole-nearly-900k-for-luxury-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8217; council worker stole nearly \u00a3900k for &#8216;luxury lifestyle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WBzxT.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A photo of a car\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A council employee was described as a &#8220;wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8221; after he stole nearly \u00a3900,000 from the accounts of vulnerable benefit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">claimants to fund a luxury lifestyle<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/wolf-in-sheep-s-clothing-council-worker-stole-nearly-900k-for-luxury-lifestyle\/ar-AA1WBVIE?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6995edff7a8646918066013ef2318e37&amp;cvpid=2b0cdc21c4ac4624a154b0686450ddbd&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A council employee was described as a &#8220;wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8221; after he stole nearly \u00a3900,000 from the accounts of vulnerable benefit\u00a0claimants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Richard-Shaw.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85150,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85148\/revisions\/85150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}