Wow, that’s no small potatoes.  What is truly shocking is how that much money could go missing for so long and not draw attention of supervisors within the D.C. government.  I also wonder why someone who steals so much doesn’t just say enough is enough and flee the country with $20 or 30 million?  The article did mention the woman was psychologically challenged.  You think??

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Harriette wanted to be seen as a benefactor. Now she can be seen as a convict.

Harriette wanted to be seen as a benefactor. Now she can be seen as a convict.

Harriette Walters, the mastermind of the $48.1 million D.C. tax scam, was sentenced this morning to 17 1/2 years in federal prison, capping the prosecution of the largest embezzlement in District government history

Walters said little as U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan sentenced the 52-year-old to near the top of a sentencing range laid out in a plea deal she had reached with prosecutors. She is the last of 11 people to be sentenced in the scheme, which Walters admitting running for nearly two decades.

“I’ve accepted full responsibility for the part I played,” said Walters, speaking for the first time. She was apologetic. She said she cooperated fully and accepted full responsibility.

“This scheme was very sophisticated,” Sullivan said. “It spanned 18 years. The city lost, the citizens lost…”

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