Frozen Envelope Unravels a City's Secret Payroll: The Roger Davis Case
Frozen Envelope Unravels a City's Secret Payroll: The Roger Davis CaseA frozen, buff-colored payroll envelope containing $640 and an employee number that did not exist sat behind a Harwick parking-meter junction box through three freeze-thaw cycles - and that single forgotten packet would expose $1.3 million in unauthorized city payouts and a phantom workforce. How did a routine petty-payroll slot, last audited in the 1980s, become the linchpin exposing seven years of coordinated fraud?In this episode, you hear how a snowplow operator's early-morning find set off an investigation that traced…
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