Posted on 01/10/2024 2:36:35 PM PST by algore
A millionaire conwoman has been accused of swindling the US Army out of $100million over six years by putting cash into her fake military youth business and splurging it on 31 homes and more than 70 supercars and motorcycles.
Mello worked for the US Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas as a CYS Financial Program Manager.
In 2016, she allegedly created a shell company, Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development, which she fraudulently used to collect money from the 4-H military partnership grant.
The firm, which was meant to help the children of army personnel, allegedly never did. Instead, it received dozens of monetary grants - without examination - for six years.
Now, Mello has nearly 80 vehicles and 31 properties across five states up for forfeiture - as federal prosecutors allege she lived a life of luxury and opulence that was clearly not supported by her $130,000 a year government salary.
She reported that her company CHYLD earned a profit of $483 on revenue of $2,152 for training consultations in 2017. But since then, she has not filed any tax returns.
She regularly filed fraudulent paperwork - and deposited grants into her fake business 40 times, securing over $100,000,000 for herself, documents allege.
Transaction details show she allegedly wire transferred $264,874 from the account to buy herself a 2023 Land Rover Range Rover last year.
She also sent herself $3,308,157 to purchase real estate property in Canyon Lake, Texas, documents state.
The court has listed a total of 78 luxury cars and motorbikes that Mello owns - and has demanded the assets in a bill of forfeiture. They include numerous Maseratis, Ferraris, Aston Martins, Mercedes, Teslas, Harley-Davidsons, and Land Rovers.
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With skills like that, she probably made a bundle from COVID too.
For something like this to be possible there would have to be such little accountability that this is a literal drop in the bucket.
I think we found Joe Biden’s coach.
Clever enough to come up with the grand scam, too stupid to realize she has to keep a low profile. Buy one nice house, one vacation cottage, a nice car, maybe two. 31 friggin houses? What a dope.
The Biden Gang runs far and wide across the land.
She was smart enough to set up and run the scam but too stupid to know when to get out.
The surprise is not that it took the IRS and FBI 7 years to catch her, but that they had time to catch her at all with all of the white terrorists to chase and conservative 501c organizations to audit.
…. unlike her, Biden and Zelle will get away with it ….
?? What if shes donates to the Dem’s like Sam Freed ??
Solitary confinement for 5 years then harvest her organs for vets who need transplants
All that money and those eyebrows are the best she could do? Seriously though, just start giving people like her the death penalty.
I tell you, not much gets past federal prosecutors.
I don’t want to hear one more word about Ukrainian corruption. This is obscene.
There is no telling how much money has been stolen at all levels of this gooberment. Just way too much money floating around unchecked.
It’s all her fault the government LET her rip is off
When I was 6, I had $.10 to spend on candy and went into the Kwik Pik store while my mom waited in the car outside. I paid for my candy, picked up the bag and as I was exiting the door, saw I had this pack of $.05 bubblegum I hadn’t paid for in my other hand that I had forgotten to put back. I crossed over the threshold and felt I was past the point of no return. I have confessed my guilt over this multiple times to my priest in the confessional booth as I did have a choice to go back to return it but was scared to.
I know so many people who cannot do the wrong thing but that seems to be far and few in between. I am just broken at the dishonesty, the lying, the theft, the violence, the deception in this world - it is almost as if people have had decency bred out of them and we are left to fend against these animals.
Are we the same person???
Ping.
This woman obviously did things in a big way.
Imagine what an audit of Ukrainian grants would show.
Everyone on the DoD side who approved the grants needs to be sitting in Leavenworth.
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