A Burlington business owner is suing the parent company for the widely-used online payment platform, Square, to recover alleged outstanding payments that she says were illegally diverted from her bank account.
The business owner, Karen Wilkinson, initially filed a lawsuit in Alamance County superior court against Block, Inc. the parent company for Square, to collect $122,854.73 in outstanding payments that were collected through her business and diverted to the “unknown owner” of a Wells Fargo Bank account during the second half of 2022.
The defendant, Block, Inc., was granted a motion in 2025 to transfer the case to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The case remains pending in both jurisdictions…