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A Utah State University employee was paid for 2 years while he didn’t work

The employee at the school’s Price campus was supposed to oversee programs for local businesses. Instead, he failed to show up and was paid more than $157,000 in salary and benefits.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sunset turns the clouds gold over the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center at Utah State University Eastern in Price on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. The school was the focus of a 2024 audit over misappropriated funds that found an employee was being paid while not showing up for work.