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The Michael Berry Show

You Won't Believe How Much This US Army Employee Managed To Embezzle

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry Show.

0:04.4

I was reading a story today about a US Army employee named Janet Yanaka Mello. She's been indicted and she has accused

0:20.3

of stealing more than $100 million from the United States Army.

0:29.0

Now, what you think about this for a moment? She's not accused of stealing $100 or even $100,000, but $100 million dollars.

0:48.1

The story goes, she would simply submit fraudulent paperwork.

0:57.2

So she's going, I don't know if she's doing it a million at a time,

1:00.2

10 million at a time, go big girl.

1:11.1

She used the money to purchase millions of dollars of real estate, cars, jewelry.

1:17.0

This is all laid out in the indictment

1:18.8

and the pleadings from the Western District of Texas

1:21.5

U.S. Attorney's Office.

1:23.0

She bought 31 different properties that they found so far,

1:28.0

including a 58-acre property.

1:32.0

She bought 78 vehicles. 78! Hell if you gave me 78 exotics, I'd rather have classics, but if you gave me 78 classic cars and trucks,

1:51.0

I wouldn't know where to store them all.

1:53.0

I guess that's why she had to have the land.

1:55.0

She got to have a place to have all this stuff.

1:58.0

So the pleadings say that she would file fraudulent paperwork for funding for her organization called

2:09.2

Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development, which spells out CHYLD for child,

2:18.0

isn't that cute?

2:19.6

Which would provide quote services to military members and their families.

2:26.6

Except it doesn't. But nobody cares.

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