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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Financial director in a fed agency was having contractors write checks to his personal account. It was discovered when he went on leave and his replacement was asked by a contractor if they should write the check to the substitute's bank account like the Financial Director had them do.

He was being investigated for a while and took a post in Afghanistan while it was in process. His wife was also in Kabul and employed as an eligible family family member doing orientations for newcomers. Well, the financial director flew back to the US for some conference or something and was arrested. His wife was stuck in Kabul and had no dining card or any other privileges. Other foreign service folk gave her money so she could eat.

She did an orientation for my group and she was obviously on some medication. It was really unfortunate. I think the guy stole about $10,000--not enough to go to jail for.
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Totally forgot this story until you told this one.

Our financial guy overseas skimmed almost $200k. We were in a place where it was a cash economy so he'd take out large amounts of local currency to pay vendors but then tell the vendors he was short a little bit and he'd get them next time. This worked for a good long while until, well, it didn't. The investigation revealed all kinds of insanity - he was scamming local women to the tune of thousands, some American colleagues as well. He was under investigation for mortgage fraud. All this happened while I was on leave, so I come back to work and there was a huge stash of unique liquor and no one would talk about where it was from. After it was all wrapped up I was told that the financial guy, upon realizing he was about to go to jail for a long time, had obtained a firearm and barricaded himself in his local apartment. Security was able to talk him down, disarm him and get him on a plane. The liquor was his personal stash. It was wild. I worked closely with the guy.[/quote]

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