Embassy accountant stole ‘hundreds of thousands’ from US military in Haiti, feds say
By Charles Duncan
December 12, 2019 01:41 PM
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A local employee of the United States Embassy in Haiti is accused of stealing “hundreds of thousands of dollars†from the U.S. military in a scheme that went on for years, according to a federal indictment.
The indictment says Roudy Pierre-Louis forged paperwork for cash advances by members of the United States Southern Command, known as SouthCom. The scheme ran from 2015 until August 2018, federal prosecutors say.
A judge in Charleston, South Carolina, issued an arrest warrant for the Haitian national Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston charged Pierre-Louis with 16 counts of fraud, including wire fraud and forgery.
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