A federal employee pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud, admitting she used teleworking so she could claim to be working full-time for three different government agencies at the same time.
Crissy Monique Baker worked at Housing and Urban Development, where she was a full-time management and program analyst. But she also held contractor positions to do human resources work at AmeriCorps and the National Institutes of Health.
Prosecutors said she not only didn’t get approval from HUD for the other work, but also sometimes billed the government for more than 24 hours of work in a single day.
In her plea agreement, she admitted to costing taxpayers $225,866.99 in payments for time she didn’t actually work.
“She was able to successfully conceal her employment because she teleworked in all three positions,” prosecutors and Ms. Baker said in the plea deal.
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