Social worker cashes $2.5m check mistakenly issued by State


	Social worker cashes $2.5m check mistakenly issued by State

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5-30-2007 1:26 PM

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5-30-2007 6:22 PM

adamc

If you've just received cash from the government and you know you shouldn't have, you probably shouldn't buy Treasury Bonds.

Whatever happened to a one-way ticket to the South Pacific?

5-30-2007 6:40 PM

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to Walker for $2,596,315 through the state's accounting system, according to the 
complaint. Walker had a state vendor number because she was paid $84 in October 
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