It's not fair no doubt but what can you do about it. Not meaning to bum you out but let me tell you about one more. This happened several years ago.
I'm in business for myself I operate a car rental store but I don't own it still belongs to the corporate company kind of like a franchise, I am basically a contractor. Anyway I had a employee steal from me over a 18 month period he was a experienced employee and knew how to hide it from me plus I trusted him to run my store when I was not there. The company brought it to my attention and I started watching him when I caught him red handed and I fired him. The money total was about 32K this was from giving away free days, coupons, giving away luxury cars for compact car rates, setting up fake direct billing to Insurance companies etc. After he was fired the company totaled it up and took it out of my commission over the next 6 months until all paid back. He stole it but I was responsible for it. I spoke to a lawyer and it was going to cost me more money then I would probably ever get out of him. No charges were brought from the rental company because they got there money out of me.
There really something wrong with our legal system.