Tosa Police Bust Widespread Payroll Fraud Ring; 4 Charged
Temporary agencies were targeted in a scam that netted at least $250,000 and perhaps more by creating phony companies with complicit employees, criminal complaint says.
After an investigation by Wauwatosa police that dates back to January 2010, and a lengthy, secret grand jury proceeding, four people, one a Milwaukee Public Schools employee, have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud against six metro area temporary employment agencies. There are more suspects in those and related crimes, already totaling about $250,000 bilked from Manpower and other temp providers through payroll scams, according to police reports and a criminal complaint. The defendants are accused of having set up several phony businesses in Wauwatosa and defrauding the temp companies through short-term payments to enrolled employees who did no actual work. Charged with six counts each of felony conspiracy to commit theft by …
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