re: Guy got paid at work for 7 mos. while working another job

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Incompetency does not excuse fraud.

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I don't think this is actually fraud in a legally actionable sense unless the law created an affirmative duty for him to return unearned pay. He clearly never told them he quit. I doubt he intended for them to be paying him after he stopped showing up, and that intent is necessary to prove fraud.