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with one's hand in the cookie jar

While committing a theft, especially while embezzling money.
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A Long Beach insurance broker, who admittedly got caught with his "hand in the cookie jar", has been accused of the theft of $400,000 from the Bank of America.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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