BATON ROUGE – The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman on Thursday after she allegedly issued over $200,000 in fraudulent payroll payments.
According to arrest records, on March 25, the Financial Crimes Division began investigating a complaint by a local towing company accusing 58-year-old Barbara Michot of issuing fraudulent payroll payments to four people not employed by the company.
The discovery of the alleged payments came after Michot, who had been working as the accounting manager for the company, resigned from her position on Feb. 27…