A former accounting clerk at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center was sentenced to two years in federal prison Thursday for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars through filing fraudulent travel expenses.
was sentenced to two years in federal prison Thursday for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars through filing fraudulent travel expenses.to one count of theft of government funds, admitting he’d created and approved fake expense reports in the names of three employees and diverted the reimbursements into bank accounts he controlled.
Minor’s attorney, Mark S. Greenberg, declined to comment after the Thursday sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney. He later sent his father to the VAMC offices in West Philadelphia with $13,260 in cash in hopes of repaying the money he stole.vast — more than $487,000 filed through dozens of false expense reports between December 2015 and September 2019.
Minor is the latest in a string of VAMC employees in Philadelphia convicted in connection with various corruption schemes.
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