{
  "id": 16212050,
  "title": "A Payroll Employee Allegedly Hid $8.2 Million in Fake Worker Profiles, Not a Software Glitch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/a-payroll-employee-allegedly-hid-8-2-million-in-fake-worker-profiles",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-23T17:15:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/sadiya-kherani/a-payroll-employee-allegedly-hid-8-2-million-in-fake-worker-profiles-not-a-software-glitch/91424304"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A court filing alleges the employee used fake worker profiles to divert more than $8.2 million over eight years before a $260,000 discrepancy raised alarms.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}