Posted on 05/05/2025 9:48:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., announced that a former Biden State Department budget analyst has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $650,000 from the agency.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, admitted to abusing signature authority over a State Department check while working as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol between March 2022 and April 2024.
Ferrer wrote 60 checks to herself and an additional three checks to another individual with whom she had a personal relationship for over two years.
Before the checks were deposited in Ferrer’s personal bank account, they were fraudulently printed and signed.
The former State Department employee racked up $657,347.50 in fraudulent charges.
Prosecutors said Ferrer attempted to cover up the scheme by using a QuickBooks account and entering her own name as the payee on checks before printing them.
To evade detection, she changed the listed payee in QuickBooks from herself to a legitimate State Department vendor.
Ferrer pleaded guilty to theft of government property on Wednesday and is scheduled to be sentenced on September 18. She faces a maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
Ferrer agreed to pay the stolen amount in restitution to the U.S. government as part of her plea agreement.
She will also be liable for a forfeiture money judgment in that same amount.
The news came after acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin clawed back nearly $1 million in a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) over-billing case.
During the audit of the U.S. government-funded Sri Lanka@100 project, it was found that USAID overbilled more than $850,000 by inflating its employee salary costs.
Martin announced in a press release:
“During an administrative audit, it was discovered that Stax put hidden profit in its proposed salary for its employees.
This hidden profit violated the terms of the cooperative agreement entered into by USAID and was further in direct contradiction to expressed statements to Stax informing them that they were not to get any profit from this cooperative agreement.”
It worked before, now it doesn’t. What happened?
New Sheriff in town................
Ain’t Affirmative Action wonderful.
The State Department is using Quick Books?
6 months ago, nobody cared
I'll take 13 months if you are putting together a pool on what the actual sentence will be.
Affirmative action?
I suspect MANY OF the DimWIT POLITICIANS are getting laundered $$ from overseas back to their accounts. Elon is scaring these people intoTDS and EDS,!
Imagine if Chicky Schumer is getting dozens of Social Security checks laundered to his accounts! Multiply his fraud by thousands of DimWITS and RINO scum and you’re talking about an almost empty House and Senate chambers
And then add in thousands and thousands of other low level scum like this chick.
The DimWITS PARTY will NEVER recover.
Affirmative action?
I suspect MANY OF the DimWIT POLITICIANS are getting laundered $$ from overseas back to their accounts. Elon is scaring these people intoTDS and EDS,!
Imagine if Chicky Schumer is getting dozens of Social Security checks laundered to his accounts! Multiply his fraud by thousands of DimWITS and RINO scum and you’re talking about an almost empty House and Senate chambers
And then add in thousands and thousands of other low level scum like this chick.
The DimWITS PARTY will NEVER recover.
She needed a network of NGO’s. Maybe that would have worked.
Levita Ferrer is a retired Sr Chief in the United States Navy.
Filipino-American, resident of Maryland, born in Tarlac. Philippines.
She has a Masters Degree in Health Administration.
Registered Republican.
A disgrace to the uniform.........
What’s up with all the medals, she’s a budget analyst. Did she fight in the Great Audit of ‘96?
Apologies if she’s ex military and earned real medals.
I was wrong, she likely did earn medals serving our country.
Welcome to FR!......….….....
If they worked for Biden you know they are a democrat and if they are a democrat you know they are a criminal. This one just got caught.
Just $650K?
What a piker! (said Clinton, Billary, Hussein, Hunter, ‘Dr’ Jill, Pelousy, Sanders, etc)
She changed the listed payee in QuickBooks from herself to a legitimate State Department vendor.
One of the Biden tribe alright she didn’t have the brains to pay a legitimate State Department vendor then go get the kickback.
Hunter chuckles
That was my first thought.
Or even just a bunch of "shell accounts" like JoeyB had.
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