Posted on 05/04/2025 3:12:13 AM PDT by Libloather
A former State Department budget analyst has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $650,000 from the agency over a two-year span, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Maryland, admitted to abusing her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024 in her capacity as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol.
She wrote 60 checks to herself and three checks to someone else she had a personal relationship with, prosecutors said.
She printed and signed each check before depositing all 63 checks into her personal bank accounts.
The checks totaled $657,347.50, according to prosecutors.
Ferrer, also known as Levita Brezovic, attempted to hide the scheme through the use of a Quickbooks account.
She would enter her name as the payee on checks in Quickbooks and print them, prosecutors said.
She would often then change the listed payee in Quickbooks from herself to a legitimate State Department vendor, making it difficult for anyone viewing those entries in the Quickbooks system to see Ferrer as the payee on the checks.
Ferrer pleaded guilty on Wednesday to theft of government property and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18.
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LOL.. I guess she found out that Quickbooks has an audit feature that shows such changes in hisocks. It’s easy to catch such fraud.
There are other ways to fool Quickbooks, but that one won’t work.
I’ve been a fraud auditor for almost fifty years and am a Quickbooks Pro Advisor.
By the way, Quickbooks has gone downhill and now really sucks.
hisocks = history
I dislike autocorrect.
She is the very model of the modern Defense Department Apparatchik.
USPHS officers have uniforms and ranks modeled on the U.S. Navy but are not part of the Defense Department, and are not subject to the UCMJ and have no command authority over military personnel.
Yes, more women appear to steal. But the men steal larger amounts.
I’ve worked hundreds of fraud cases over the years. The usually start small and then grow.
Like a case I did where the Church treasurer paid for home construction material with a church check to save sales taxes and then kept doing it and never reimbursed the church.
You would be surprised at the amount of embezzlement in churches.
I’ve worked on fraud cases of companies listed on stock exchanges. The stakes are high and those can be dangerous.
And give up her pension.
Folks, the perp has an interesting resume.
And I mean very interesting.
Check out her LinkedIn page.
If she’d stopped at one or two checks they’d probably not have caught her.
No question.
Embezzling is like potato chips. Few people have the self-control to stop at one or two. The old analogy is that there are many faithful wives, but few who have cheated only once.
You assumed her gender there, bigot!!! Shame on you.
yeah, my bad. someone else corrected that too. thanks.
If you cant find where the money is going, then look to who passed cleared the money. This is not to hard, however, the gov seems to not ask this question for obvious reasons.
That should happen immediately.
.......the gov never asks where the missing money went.....for obvious reasons.......
“”She would often then change the listed payee in Quickbooks from herself to a legitimate State Department vendor,””
In the meantime, where was the State Department IG? Same place all other IG’s are....nowhere to be found UNTIL the horse has been stolen!
I was a full charge bookkeeper for many years, the old fashioned way - paper ledgers, journals, binders and pens and adding machines.
No experience with the “new” system (Quick Books) where people call themselves BOOKKEEPERS and it’s only a matter of using a keyboard for entries - without any thought.
I find it difficult to believe that a journal created and posted one way to embezzle funds can be changed AFTER that to hide the crime!! I wonder if all those systems have been changed since!!!
I saw everything FReeper Liz posted in #13 for this person in Linked In. Does everything in Linked In get VERIFIED? Pretty impressive if TRUE but why does it feel like an impossibility to do everything that person has listed? Had to be constantly on the go from one country to another?????
She is black and her resume says so loudly and clearly.
Ferrer is a common surname amongst Filipinos. 1:212
You may find some black hispanics as in Dominican Republic /Caribbean
Google Ferrer and Filipino and see how many results you get, lol
Then try Ferrer with black, African American, negro, whatever term you want to use and see how many results you get there
Btw, how does her job history identify her as black ?
I saw something about DEI but you cleared it up.
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