A Comcast Corp. employee responsible for administering company retirement accounts was charged with bilking the company out of almost $125,000 through a fraud scheme, federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said.
Laura Wayne, 37, of Coatesville, Pa. was charged late Friday with seven counts of wire fraud via criminal information, which means some sort of plea agreement is most likely in the offing. Wayne worked at Comcast from June 2010 until January 2014 as an administrator of 401(k) retirement accounts of Comcast employees. Prosecutors said she was responsible for handling daily bank reconciliations, responding to employee concerns, recording the employee percentage contributions to the accounts and wiring employee contributions to the administrator, Fidelity Investments.
She had access to a spreadsheet of information about Comcast 401(k) accounts that was sent to Fidelity every pay period and had the ability to create accounts and include information about the accounts on spreadsheets for Fidelity.
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