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MSN<\/a><\/p>\n Don’t know if this is a record, but has to be close to it.<\/p>\n Janet Yamanaka Mello, 57, a civilian financial program manager at Fort Sam Houston,has been indicted on charges that she stole 100 million dollars – a huge amount of money in anyone’s book – while working for the Army.<\/p>\n Mello allegedly used the stolen funds to amass a real estate portfolio of 31 properties, a fleet of 78 vehicles, more than $18 million in various bank accounts linked to her, and a jewelry collection, according to court records.<\/p>\n Some of the luxury listings include a roughly $3.1 million, eight-bedroom, 55-car garage, 58-acre estate in Maryland and an approximately $1.1 million home in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear at this time whether those properties were used to store Mello\u2019s alleged Jay Leno-esque collection of classic, expensive cars and motorcycles.<\/p>\n According to the indictment, the Army civilian allegedly carried out the scheme by regularly submitting fraudulent paperwork as early as December 2016 that indicated a bogus business she controlled, named Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development, was entitled to money from the 4-H Military Partnership Grant program, a collaboration \u201cto provide meaningful youth development opportunities for military-connected children.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n No one questioned her life style? No one thought a 55 car garage on 58 acres was just a bit past your typical GS-14? According to the article, her legal team supposedly has until January 19th to reach a deal. Me, I’m thinking her civilian bosses and key oversight folks should have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n Mello is charged with five counts of mail fraud, four counts of engaging in a monetary transaction over $10,000 using criminally derived proceeds and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Western District of Texas.<\/p>\n If convicted, Mello faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each fraud charge, up to 10 years in prison for each spending statute charge and a mandatory minimum of two years in prison for the aggravated identity theft charge.<\/p>\n\n
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