A Manager at a Pennsylvania Wendy’s Invented a Fake Employee and Pocketed Wages of $20,000, Police Say
July 31, 2023
A former general manager at a Wendy’s restaurant in Pennsylvania has been charged with theft by deception after allegedly inventing a fake employee named William Bright to pocket wages. The manager manually logged 128 shifts for the non-existent employee, receiving $19,898 between June 2021 and May the following year. The restaurant’s insurer paid out nearly $16,000 for the incident, and an arrest warrant has been issued for the ex-manager.
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