Justsimcha: I believe it’s stil stealing, even if you say that Ta’us by Akkum is muttar, in this case the Ta’us would not have been committed by the person whose money it is. He have his worker permission to sell stuff, not give away $1700. I think it would probably still be stealing in this case. I could be wrong though. Choshen Mishpat is very far from my area of expertise (assuming I actually have one).
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