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Prosecutor: Bean Counter Stole $1.1M From NJ Firm With 'Ghost' Workers Prosecutor: Bean Counter Stole $1.1M From NJ Firm With 'Ghost' Workers
Prosecutor: Bean Counter Stole $1.1M From NJ Firm With 'Ghost' Workers A bookkeeper from Hasbrouck Heights embezzled $1.1 million from a Bogota-based carpentry company by creating “ghost employees,” among other methods, authorities charged. Maribel Rios, 51 – also known as Maribel Roche – “engaged in various schemes” to “manipulate the company payroll system” over a three-year period, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. The prosecutor said these included: issuing payroll deposits to “ghost employees”; issuing company checks to accounts that she controlled; manipulating accounting software to justify the checks. Then she used the money on h…

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