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THE MISSING PAYROLL · The Timekeepers Dilemma

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every two weeks, employees at Carson and Blake Consulting received their paychecks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But one Friday morning, nobody got paid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At first, management blamed the bank.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then they blamed a computer error, but an accountant discovered something much worse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Someone had been stealing money from employees for nearly a year, and the person responsible had access to every paycheck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tonight's story is about money and vision betrayal and a deadline that could expose everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the missing payroll beginning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca Lane was a company's payroll manager.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She loved numbers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She loved solving problems.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she was proud of the trust her company placed in her.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But Rebecca had a secret.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She was drowning in debt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and she discovered something incredibly dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A small payroll adjustment could redirect and employee's paycheck into another account.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One account became two, two, became 10.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca began stealing small amounts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She convinced herself that nobody would notice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then the amounts became larger, metal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For almost a year, Rebecca manipulated payroll.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She created fake employee accounts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She redirected overtime payments.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She altered records.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But then an internal auditor named James Carter noticed something strange.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The same bank account appeared under several different employee names, James began investigating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca discovered what he was doing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She confronted him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: James told her he was going to report the discrepancy Monday morning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca had one weekend to stop him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On Friday evening, James stayed late.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 6.32pm, he sent an email to the company's chief financial
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I found something serious we need to talk Monday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 640 PM James disappeared, his car remained in the parking lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: His office door was locked, his computer was still running.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And police eventually discovered that Rebecca had followed James into the parking lot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She confronted him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca attempted to make the death appear unrelated to the payroll scheme, but investigators found the digital evidence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Computer records showed Rebecca accessing the payroll system immediately before and after the estimated time of James' death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Her financial records provided another clue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Money had been transferred into accounts she controlled.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The missing payroll wasn't a computer error.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was the beginning of a much larger crime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Rebecca was arrested and charged, and the company changed its payroll security procedures.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: James had planned to expose the theft on Monday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't get the chance, but the record spoke for him
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  [SPEAKER_00]: they don't get scared.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't forget.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Host out row.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You've been listening to the timekeepers dilemma.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: True crime tales.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm the Wayne T. Remember, you can erase a message.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can destroy a document.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes the numbers remember everything.