Just to give you an opinion from the flip side. The employer is in a position
where they can't say much other than "it is under investigation".

As an employer, we recently had to fire an employee for failing a background
check (which was originally sent to the wrong employer), which made her
ineligible for the job based on the state mandated requirements. She told
employees that she was fired because she had her mother's narcotic cough syrup
in her car when she was 17. Truth be told she had been arrested 4 different
times (all as an adult) and convicted or pleaded guilty. As an employer, all
we could say was that she no longer worked here.

So it is my guess that what you see in the news is totally the fired employee's
side of the store. "No comment" from Ruby Tuesday's just doesn't make good
copy.