{
  "id": 11399943,
  "title": "Bookkeeper admits defrauding $2.8m from farming family",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/bookkeeper-admits-defrauding-2-8m-from-farming-family",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-02T08:30:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News AU",
    "slug": "abc-news-au",
    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-02/bookkeeper-michelle-lawson-tully-farming-fraud/107220480"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Michelle Kathleen Lawson discussed the hardships of farming with the family that employed her for almost two decades while secretly taking from their accounts, a court has heard.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}