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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Does anyone find it odd that the US Government is using Quickbooks to issue checks? Remember when DOGE went into the Treasury Dept, there was a big stink about government payment systems?
Have to wonder how many people have access to the US government checkbook.
Seems like a lot of soccer mommies embezzle from youth sports funds and PTOs.
“Do women embezzle more often than men or does it just seem that way?”
My ex sister in law embezzled $150,000 from the church she worked at as a book keeper. My idiot brother was in it up to his neck.
They both got 3 years for it.
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Huh!!!???
weird
Lol
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