caught with one's hand in the cookie jar

caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
Observed or apprehended while committing a theft, especially while embezzling money.

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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