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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if you have a thing against DMV feds in particular, but according to the article she was in the “U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas as a CYS Financial Program Manager - where she was able to allegedly move money into her shell company." C'mon, reading skills, folks. [/quote]

So she did use a shell company? (I'm not reading then articles but reading the thread with interest)[/quote]

Yes.

Her employer seems to be some sort of accounting/financial controller firm that has access to authorize payments from the U.S. Army to various contractors for services rendered. She created a shell company that provided fictitious services to the U.S. Army, using her access at her job [b]+ forging her boss’s signature to direct $100M in payments from the Army to her shell company. 
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She then wired money directly from the shell company to her personal bank account to buy 31 properties and 80+ vehicles in cash over the course of six years. The IRS flagged her transactions as there was no legit source of income for the monies; she did not pay personal income taxes on the monies received and the shell company paid no corporate taxes.

The IRS unwound the entire scheme and notified the U.S. Army.

I imagine there are so many of these schemes happening right now in defense contracting. There is no way to audit (1) where the money is going and (2) if we are actually getting the services promised. The compliance element has all been delegated to other contractors! [/quote]

And note that what is meant by "forging her boss's signature" is that it was electronic, which might mean a mouse click. I don't know the ins and outs of this particular unit, but there are lots of situations where authority is delegated or there are multiple approvers in a work unit. I'm an approver (in a different agency). And my "approval" is literally clicking a box inside a system and then hitting the approve button. But I have limited authority. Something is very wrong when $100 million can go out the door like this. Especially since it seems this was an MWR unit - Morale, Welfare, and Recreation.[/quote]

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