Does this explain the Washington Dollars without edge engraving?

Here is an extract from an article I read today:

"A North Wildwood, N.J., man who worked as a police officer at the U.S. Mint today admitted stealing $2.4 million worth of error coins from the U.S. Mint and selling them to a coin distributor in California, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced."

the story goes on with more deatil but suffice it to say, this is a big WTF. He apparenly was a major reason those Washington Dollars without edge engraving came to the marketplace. Was he also, along with others, the reason they were produced in the first place? How can a mint employee, even a police officer, manage to get away with stealing so many of the coins (enough to make over 2 Million Dollars) over a period of time and get away with it?

I have a feeling that there are more folks involved. This is really ugly.

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