Brickbat: Cooking the Books

Former U.S. State Department budget analyst Levita Almuete Ferrer has pleaded guilty to embezzling $657,347.50 by abusing her authority over a department checking account. Ferrer wrote 60 checks to herself and three to someone she knew personally, depositing them into her own accounts. She tried to cover her tracks by altering records in QuickBooks to make it look like payments went to legitimate State Department vendors. Ferrer admitted to theft of government property and faces up to 10 years in prison.

Comments

[Speaking for normal people]

well, with a most stupid and lazy President giving scandalous example, this is peanuts

Feb 11, 2025 — On February 2, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said he had only received $75 billion of the $175 billion the United States had spent

[SQRLSY]

From https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/feb/05/facebook-posts/zelenskyys-statement-about-ukraine-aid-didnt-revea/

Zelenskyy's statement about Ukraine aid didn't reveal money laundering operation
If Your Time is short

Much of the money the U.S. has dedicated for Ukraine aid is spent in the U.S. on domestic weapons manufacturers and U.S. military and government operations.

Direct military support to Ukraine totaled about $70 billion out of the $175 billion Congress has appropriated.

The money isn’t being laundered, it’s being spent as Congress intended.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

"is spent in the U.S. on domestic weapons manufacturers and U.S. military and government operations."

Depends on how you define being laundered.

[SQRLSY]

Shit's pretty simple! (Response was misplaced at first.)

If Government Almighty spends money, the money is good and clean! Shit's ALL for the pubic GOOD!

If money is spent by private decisions of privates, primates, pirates, or corporations that Government Almighty doesn't like... THIS is deleterious spending by ENEMAS of the pubic and the pubic good!!! DIRTY money being LAUNDERED!!! BAD money BAD!!! ONLY Government Almighty can properly GRAB shit, then LAUNDER shit properly, and turn it into CLEAN money!!!

All Hail Government Almighty; Laundress to The King and to The Emperor!!!

[Fist of Etiquette]

If she wanted to funnel tax dollars to herself she should have run for congress.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Federal courts would have protected her instead of sentencing her.

[TJJ2000]

Maybe Levita Almuete Ferrer Identified-as 'poor'.
How can you prosecute the 'poor' for their Gov-Gun'em down ?free? ponies! /s

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Nothing left to cut

[Medulla Oblongata]

I feel like brickbats are just one week old echos of things posted in roundup comments these days.

[SQRLSY]

(This Deeply Moving Cumment was moved to where it belongs!)