> Isn't the photoshopped wire transfer literally outright criminal fraud?
Its not clear to me that it is criminal fraud; its clearly deceptive, and its clearly intended to defuse expected responses to the already-criminal failure to pay regular payroll, but I'm not sure its an independent crime.
But, you know, there are people who taxpayers pay to investigate the kind of thing described in this article (like the local DA and the California Department of Industrial Relations) and I'd defer to them on exactly which bits of this affair are which crimes.
