BUTLER TWP — A woman is accused of using her position as a supervisor to hire a “ghost employee” at a Moraine Pointe Plaza restaurant in an alleged payroll fraud scheme that netted her more than $48,000.

But Michele L. Krzewinski apparently kept little if any of the suspected ill-gotten money for herself.

Rather, according to township detectives, she turned it over to the fake employee — her then-boyfriend, who was serving a lengthy stint in state prison for the armed robbery of a purported house of prostitution in Philadelphia.

Butler Township police this week charged Krzewinski, 48, of Sligo, Clarion County and Christopher J. Sweet, 47, of Philadelphia in connection with the alleged fraud in 2018 and 2019.

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