(Feb 08, 2013, (The Washington Post))--The pair of parking lot attendants at the Smithsonian Institution’s
air and space center in Chantilly were very patient. And for a while,
anyway, their patience paid off. Car by car, truck by truck, SUV by SUV — as thousands of
drivers handed over the $15 parking fee for the lot at the Steven F.
Udvar-Hazy Center, the booth attendants pocketed it. One of them hauled
off wads of cash in a red duffel bag.
To mask their thefts, they doctored the daily work sheets and unplugged the machine that counted a car every time the gate was raised and lowered. Fifteen dollars here and $15 there added up very quickly. Since 2009, the two attendants stole almost $1.4 million in parking fees, court records show.
The full scope of the theft became known Friday at the sentencing of Freweyni Mebrahtu, 46, of Sterling, who admitted stealing $900,000. That’s on top of the nearly $487,000 theft previously disclosed during the January sentencing of her colleague, Meseret Terefe, 37, of Silver Spring. Read more from The Washington post
To mask their thefts, they doctored the daily work sheets and unplugged the machine that counted a car every time the gate was raised and lowered. Fifteen dollars here and $15 there added up very quickly. Since 2009, the two attendants stole almost $1.4 million in parking fees, court records show.
The full scope of the theft became known Friday at the sentencing of Freweyni Mebrahtu, 46, of Sterling, who admitted stealing $900,000. That’s on top of the nearly $487,000 theft previously disclosed during the January sentencing of her colleague, Meseret Terefe, 37, of Silver Spring. Read more from The Washington post
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