Posted on 11/05/2011 1:53:09 PM PDT by george76
Metro hired as an accountant a woman who admitted to being convicted of multiple counts of bank fraud, documents obtained by The Washington Times show, and who faced life in prison after separately being implicated in one of the largest heroin rings in the District...
The heroin gang had relied on financial maneuvering to avoid detection and increase its profits, including laundering money and .
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“Latonya Denise Curtis was responsible for providing advice and guidance to the organization as well as assisting the organization to hide and launder the illegal proceeds from the organization’s narcotics trafficking activities,” prosecutors said in the release.
Ms. Curtis also was charged with seven federal counts of bank fraud and found guilty after a jury trial in 1999
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She was probably the only minority who applied for the job.
Hate to say it but facts are facts.
Latonya Denise Curtis seems to have missed her calling.
With all those fraudulent creds, she could have been the assistant to Tax Cheat Geitner; balanced the budget for Pelosi and Waxman; packaged mortgage papers for Fan and Freddie; or forecasted for the CBO. Truly fraudulent federal government talent being wasted.
But, I really hate how our government continues to go after good Quakers like “Latonya”!
In DC, she’s NOT a minority!
Those “Amish” again, always getting into trouble with drugs and crooked dealings with money. Someone should really do something!
Doubt it. DC and PG county, MD are full of black professionals working in gov’t. PG county is the highest income black-majority county in the country. And then the suburbs surrounding DC have very high immigrant populations, so you can have diverse minority hires.
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