Any organization as vast and complex as the federal government is ripe for fraud. There are literally millions of people managing all the ways money flows into and out of the government, and amazingly, a lot is disbursed through things like QuickBooks accounts that can be edited after checks are cut. Embezzlers do get caught, nonetheless. These systems must have some kind of audit trail, because that is how a fraudster at the State Department got caught. Fox Business anchor Elizabeth McDonald broke that story on X on Sunday.
Thousands of federal workers as low as budget analysts have signature authority over disbursing your taxpayer $ via things like Quickbook accounts & have been accused of embezzling & fraud to the GAO. A State Dept. budget analyst in the protocol office just pled guilty to… pic.twitter.com/9AGG6Q1lTc
— Elizabeth MacDonald…
