A former State Department budget analyst who served under the Biden Administration has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $650,000 from the agency over a two-year span, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C. announced.
Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, admitted to abusing her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024. Ferrer, a Maryland resident, worked as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol.
Over the two-year period, she wrote 60 checks to herself and an additional three checks to another individual she had a personal relationship with, prosecutors said. Each check was printed and signed before ultimately being deposited in Ferrer’s personal bank account.
In total, the ex-State Department employee racked up $657,347.50 in fraudulent charges.
Ferrer, who also goes by Levita Brezovic, attempted to cover up the scheme through the use of a QucikBooks account. She did so by entering her own name as the payee on checks in Quickbooks before printing them, prosecutors said.
She would often then change the listed payee in Quickbooks from herself to a legitimate State Department vendor, which made it difficult for anyone viewing the fraudulent entries in the