Pump & Dump

A city employee picked up the phone. Aurora lost $1.1 million before lunch.

On April 29, 2026, someone called a City of Aurora employee, said the right words in the right voice, and walked out with payroll money through the ACH system. The city had paid for the training that was supposed to stop this.

By Mark Tell · May 22
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