(Sept 30, 2012, (Washington Post))--Car-by-car over the past three years, a parking lot attendant at the
Smithsonian Institution’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly
dutifully collected a $15-a-vehicle fee — and then routinely stashed
wads of the cash into a duffel bag and took it home with him, court
records show.
Wads as in: $400,000 stolen between March 2009 and July 2012, according to the guilty plea entered Friday in federal court in Alexandria by attendant Meseret Terefe, 36, of Silver Spring. Terefe usually worked only two days a week — often weekends — yet could steal as much as $4,470 a day by under-reporting cars that had paid, court filings show.
During seven days beginning in late May, about $23,000 in parking revenue was not reported when Terefe failed to count hundreds of cars that passed through his booth — one of five entry lanes at the lot, court files show. Read more from Washington Post »
Wads as in: $400,000 stolen between March 2009 and July 2012, according to the guilty plea entered Friday in federal court in Alexandria by attendant Meseret Terefe, 36, of Silver Spring. Terefe usually worked only two days a week — often weekends — yet could steal as much as $4,470 a day by under-reporting cars that had paid, court filings show.
During seven days beginning in late May, about $23,000 in parking revenue was not reported when Terefe failed to count hundreds of cars that passed through his booth — one of five entry lanes at the lot, court files show. Read more from Washington Post »
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