A Crime that can be Committed by All
The race of the alleged offenders could be assumed to be White by cultural assumption of the name they have. As far as change over time, there were no significant changes. However, some cases do show non-White embezzlers being reported. The details of these crimes paint a picture that the Star portrays of embezzlement being a non-racial exclusive crime.
Take for example the first article below about Oadle Herro, an Arabic, Syrian National working as a jeweler in Chicago. Herro did not embezzle money from a bank or skim profits from his sales supervisor. Herro took advantage of a situation he was in, that of the jewelry business. Herro embezzled jewelry to pay for a wedding for him and his wife. Herro was caught in Chicago, Illinois, on American soil. Jewelry, by this story, is a trade that is susceptible to the crime of embezzlement. Any man or woman of any race, age or, ethnicity could have done what Herro did. Taking extra diamonds or shaving off extra gold could be done by anybody who had the experience and opportunity to work in the jeweler trade to accomplish.
Other cases regarding African Americans prove that anyone can commit sales jobs and scams. See second example article below. In multiple instances, White and Black men were shown committing almost identical crimes of embezzlement by altering sales prices to walk away with extra money at the end of the day after scamming clients and customers. The practice of charging a higher price than pocketing the original difference from the actual sales price could be done by anybody who either had basic math skills or was smart enough to conceive this scam. Overall, this proves that according to the Star, race had little effect on who would be an embezzler and who would not.