马里兰州女子用幽灵雇员骗领工资73万多美元 认电信诈骗罪
马里兰州 Baltimore 消息：美国司法部马里兰区联邦检察官办公室11月6日宣布，Frederick 女子 Tara Taylor Williams 在联邦法院就电信诈骗罪认罪。她在一家私人会员制乡村俱乐部的会计与人力资源部门任职期间，用一个根本不存在的幽灵雇员骗领工资超过15年。马里兰区联邦检察官 Kelly O. Hayes 公布了这项认罪。
Williams 现年52岁。根据她的认罪协议，从2010年到2025年9月，她利用职务之便和雇主的信任盗取俱乐部的工资款。她进入工资系统，造出一个幽灵雇员：名字套用一名已离职员工，地址是编的，社会安全号用的是一个已故者的号码。她还为这个假雇员建了两个形似其姓名的电子邮箱账户、用假出生日期，并给它编了一个与另一个假雇员相连的员工编号。
造好假档案后，Williams 录入虚假的考勤记录生成工资，再把这名幽灵雇员的工资直接打进她本人的银行账户。俱乐部为此共支出逾90万美元的工资与代扣款，其中逾73万美元进了 Williams 的个人账户，被她用于个人开销。
俱乐部发现幽灵雇员后，Williams 篡改了一份马里兰州儿童抚养管理局的文件，拿给俱乐部管理层，企图证明这个雇员真实存在。俱乐部随后将她解雇，监控录像拍到她在离职前扫描并粉碎文件。执法人员搜查她的电子账户后发现，她曾上网搜索过误付他人款项、幽灵雇员的处罚以及那个虚假地址等内容，手机里还存有一张照片，上面记着幽灵雇员的两个邮箱地址、假出生日期与那个属于已故者的社会安全号。
Williams 因电信诈骗罪最高可判20年监禁，量刑定于2027年2月5日上午10时举行，实际刑期由联邦地区法官参照量刑指南等因素裁定。此案由联邦调查局（FBI）Baltimore 办公室与 Montgomery 县警察局调查，FBI 负责人 Jimmy Paul 与 Montgomery 县警察局代理局长 Darren Francke 与检察官办公室共同公布认罪。案件由助理联邦检察官 Philip Motsay 与 Catriona Coppler 负责起诉。
（来源：美国司法部）
Maryland Woman Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in $730,000 Ghost-Employee Payroll Scheme
BALTIMORE, Maryland - A Maryland woman pled guilty in federal court on November 6 to wire fraud in connection with a payroll embezzlement scheme, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced. Tara Taylor Williams, 52, of Frederick, embezzled payroll funds from a private, member-owned country club where she worked in the accounting and human resources departments, U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes announced.
According to her guilty plea, beginning in 2010 and continuing through September 2025, Williams used her position and abused her employer's trust to steal payroll funds. Using her access to the payroll system, she created a fictitious employee whose name corresponded with a former employee, made up a fictitious address, and used a deceased individual's Social Security number. She also created two email accounts resembling the ghost employee's name, used a purported date of birth, and assigned the fictitious employee an employee number linked to another ghost employee.
Williams then made false timekeeping entries to generate payroll distributions and directed the deposit of the fictitious employee's payroll funds into her personal bank account. Through the scheme, the country club disbursed more than $900,000 in wages and withholdings, and Williams received more than $730,000 into her personal account, which she used for her own personal enrichment.
When the club discovered the ghost employee, Williams altered a document from the Maryland Child Support Administration and presented it to club management in an effort to show that the employee existed. The club later terminated her, and surveillance video showed her scanning and shredding documents before leaving. After search warrants were executed on her electronic accounts, law enforcement found internet searches about paying someone in error, ghost employee punishment, and the fictitious address, as well as a cell phone photo containing the ghost employee's two email addresses, purported date of birth, and the deceased individual's Social Security number.
Williams faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for wire fraud. Sentencing is set for February 5, 2027, at 10 a.m. The case was investigated by the FBI Baltimore Field Office and the Montgomery County Police Department, and was announced with Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul of the FBI and Acting Chief Darren Francke of the Montgomery County Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Philip Motsay and Catriona Coppler are prosecuting the case.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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