{"id":27911,"date":"2025-12-24T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27911"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:30:04","slug":"stolen-power-inside-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=27911","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Power Inside Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior official who served in the Biden administration\u2019s State Department has just pleaded<\/p>\n<p>guilty to a jaw-dropping theft \u2014 and the numbers are staggering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, a former senior budget analyst in the Office of the Chief of Protocol, admitted to embezzling $657,347.50 over two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<div id=\"readupdatednews.com_responsive_2\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/readupdatednews.com\/readupdatednews.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to a report by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for D.C., she wrote dozens of checks to herself and<\/p>\n<p>deposited them into personal accounts while disguising them in the State Department\u2019s accounting system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"readupdatednews.com_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23207117756\/readupdatednews.com\/readupdatednews.com_responsive_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors said Ferrer used QuickBooks to change payee records after printing each check, falsely<\/p>\n<p>assigning the funds to real vendors to avoid detection.<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded guilty to theft of government property and will be sentenced on September 18.<\/p>\n<p>New York Post reported that Ferrer has agreed to repay the stolen funds and faces up to 10 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior official who served in the Biden administration\u2019s State Department has just pleaded guilty to a jaw-dropping theft \u2014 and the numbers are staggering. Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27913,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27911\/revisions\/27913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}