ADP employee indicted for defrauding 18 clients

Mugshot of Danyelle Allison Logan from 2015. Photo courtesy of Augustacrime.com

Date: November 14, 2022

A woman accused of using her insider knowledge to steal more than $200,000 from her employer’s clients in just a few months has been indicted on federal charges.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment accusing Danyelle Allison Logan of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, crimes that allegedly occurred while she worked for Automatic Data Processing in 2020.

According to the indictment, Logan worked at ADP as a client service representative from February through November 2020. Her duties included adding employees’ data to clients’ payrolls, and processing clients’ payrolls.

Logan is accused of defrauding 18 clients by calling other ADP employees and impersonating clients’ payroll managers to add fake employees to the clients’ payrolls from July to September 2020.

In all Logan is accused of defrauding ADP clients of $224,201, according to the indictment. She faces 15 counts of wire fraud and five counts of aggravated identity fraud.

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