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Government employee fraud has led to a wire fraud guilty plea from Nehemie Almonor, a 41-year-old human resources specialist from King George, Virginia, in the Eastern District of Virginia. Court documents state that between May 2022 and at least April 2025, she electronically submitted timecards certifying full-time telework for several employers during overlapping hours. Prosecutors put the combined amount defrauded from her employers at no less than $291,905. She entered the plea on 1 April 2026, following an investigation by the Transportation Security Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement and Investigations. Added together, they attested to 120 hours or more of work in single 40-hour periods. Almonor was scheduled to be sentenced on 22 July and faces up to 20 years in prison, the same office said.
Prosecutors say Almonor commonly kept at least three work laptops open next to each other, so that each employer would believe she was online and working full-time only for them.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a press release that Almonor commonly submitted timecards for full-time work at three positions simultaneously. They included a private company and multiple federal government organisations. Beyond the private company, the employers named were the Transportation Security Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Food and Drug Administration and the Air Force Reserves. The Transportation Security Administration received multiple complaints that she was often unreachable during the very hours she had certified on her timecards, at a time when she held at least three full-time positions. Almonor applied to other government agencies and described herself as unemployed, and so available to start immediately While in various full-time telework positions. She also claimed full-time work during a period of military orders with the United States Air Force, at the same time as she claimed full-time work for three other entities. A federal district court judge will decide any sentence after considering the United States Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.