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Former State Department analyst pleads guilty to embezzling more than $650K
https://nypost.com/ ^ | May 4, 2025 | Landon Mion,

Posted on 05/05/2025 8:59:22 AM PDT by bitt

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 650k; embezzling; statedepartment

1 posted on 05/05/2025 8:59:22 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 05/05/2025 8:59:37 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Reparations, I guess.


3 posted on 05/05/2025 9:00:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (People who receive less results for effort will naturally put in less effort when the game is rigged)
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To: bitt

Government widespread corruption in every direction.

Spit*


4 posted on 05/05/2025 9:05:01 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: bitt
She wrote 60 checks to herself

I want all my effing money back!

5 posted on 05/05/2025 9:06:13 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: bitt

Is this found by DOGE?


6 posted on 05/05/2025 9:06:28 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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Seems like a DOGE find


7 posted on 05/05/2025 9:15:10 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: bitt
Guilty, but not by much.
8 posted on 05/05/2025 9:15:14 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: dragnet2

“As part of her plea agreement, Ferrer agreed to pay the stolen amount in restitution to the US government and be liable for a forfeiture money judgment in that same amount.”

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We’ll see.....how the heck a 64 year old is gonna pay back thst kind of money is beyond me.


9 posted on 05/05/2025 9:16:46 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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She will embezzle it from the next Democrats administration that will instantly hire her back, with a promotion and a pay increase.


10 posted on 05/05/2025 9:19:04 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: bitt

Surprise, surprise, surprise. An Obama Democrat belonging to the race of professional victims embezzling taxpayer’s money? They used to hang bank robbers for much less stolen money.


11 posted on 05/05/2025 9:33:22 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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#11: "Obama Democrat belonging to the race of professional victims embezzling taxpayer’s money"

Dark days in America.

12 posted on 05/05/2025 9:36:03 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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“As part of her plea agreement, Ferrer agreed to pay the stolen amount in restitution to the US government and be liable for a forfeiture money judgment in that same amount.”

All of the above and 20 years in the new Alcatraz lock up.

13 posted on 05/05/2025 9:52:23 AM PDT by Flint
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To: V_TWIN

401k, pension etc. I worked for an insurance company where they caught a lady embezzling $40,000 thru claims. She was given the option of being prosecuted or paying it back. She cashed out her 401k to pay for it.


14 posted on 05/05/2025 10:08:46 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: traderrob6

Looking at that chest full of medals, she’s probably guilty of stolen valor too.


15 posted on 05/05/2025 10:40:03 AM PDT by MNnice
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Whatever the punishment it isn’t enough. F these criminals.


16 posted on 05/05/2025 11:10:14 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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