In what strikes me as a confluence of left-wing interests, Levita Almuete Ferrer, henceforth to be known as “A Maryland Woman,” has been indicted for robbing taxpayers of over $657,347.50 while working for the Biden State Department. The (now) former employee has pleaded guilty to using government computers and access to expense accounts to write herself checks, which she then deposited in her own accout.
Given how much our Democrat friends object to any scrutiny of government accounting or its blessed public servants (little angels, they are), I’d have expected more pushback. They are already on record defending Jew Haters, arson and vandalism, illegal aliens who assault women (and have multiple deportation orders from judges), violent Venezuelan gang members, waste fraud, abuse, and the public servants who engage in or defend it, so why not this?
Why aren’t private-jet using Marxist cranks who happens to be a member of congress shouting “Maryland Woman” [insert lies and bullshit here], to crowds of paid protesters? I’m sure she was planning to use it to pay off someone else’s student loans or some other Robin Hooding, even if she had not yet donated any of the ill-gotten gains to Democrat candidates through ActBlue.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $650,000 from the U.S. State Department over a two-year period.
The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr., Special Agent in Charge Benjamin Brockschmidt of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Inspector General, and Deputy Assistant Director William Ferrari of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service Office of Special Investigations.
As part of her guilty plea, Ferrer, who is also known as Levita Brezovic, admitted that she abused her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024 while working as a Senior Budget Analyst in the State Department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol. She issued 60 checks payable to herself and three checks payable to another individual with whom she had a personal relationship. She printed and signed each check and then deposited all 63 checks, which totaled $657,347.50, into her personal checking and savings accounts.
Ferrer attempted to conceal her scheme by using a common Quickbooks account at the State Department. After entering her name as the payee on checks in Quickbooks and then printing them, she often changed the listed payee in Quickbooks from herself to an actual State Department vendor. As a result, anyone viewing those entries in the Quickbooks system did not see Ferrer’s name as the payee on the checks unless they accessed an audit trail.
I’m sure this is just an outlier (it’s not), and there’s still no need to scrutinize federal spending in every department to find other instances of misuse of funds (see also waste, fraud, and abuse). The sort that stopped dead after Treasury policy was changed to require a receipt and explanation of a request for money.
That was likely Ferrer’s mistake. She used State Department software to cut herself checks, then modified the details to hide her theft. She should have submitted bogus requests to the Treasury without receipts or explanations and had them cut her checks instead.
That’s the government Democrats are trying to protect, but this must be a bridge too far, even for them. Faceless theft and money laundering (to them) is one thing. A name that didn’t even give them their kickback for making theft so easy isn’t their sort of thief.
