{"id":556,"date":"2010-07-05T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-07-05T21:04:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T04:04:25","slug":"news-brief-tenino-woman-charged-with-stealing-overtime-pay-from-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Tenino woman charged with stealing overtime pay from DOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Tenino woman who worked for the state Department of Transportation is facing criminal charges in connection with allegations she collected more than $74,000 in unearned overtime compensation by altering her time cards, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Taylor of Tenino was charged with four counts of first-degree theft and was arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court on Thursday, according to a news release from the state agency.<\/p>\n<p>One of Taylor&#8217;s responsibilities as she worked as a secretary at a WSDOT Pierce County construction office was entering the office&#8217;s time sheets into the timekeeping system, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Her overtime was flagged by management during a routine review last year and the agency&#8217;s internal audit division followed up finding issues during 2007 through last year, according to Lloyd Brown of WSDOT.<\/p>\n<p>She resigned last year instead of being fired, Brown noted.<\/p>\n<p>A civil suit seeking restitution for the state is underway in Thurston County Superior Court, according to Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter A Tenino woman who worked for the state Department of Transportation is facing criminal charges in connection with allegations she collected more than $74,000 in unearned overtime compensation by altering her time cards, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Rachel Taylor of Tenino was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}