{"id":11926,"date":"2018-11-16T12:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:49:59","slug":"6-7-million-embezzled-from-the-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11926","title":{"rendered":"$6.7 Million Embezzled from the County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County prides itself on its good government reputation. So it&#8217;s a bit of a shock to hear from the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/montgomery-official-embezzled-67-million-from-county-federal-prosecutors-say\/2018\/11\/16\/5378861c-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2EZwtCFEg5S4LEmz7bTI9N4HGv-BRTTkyCjppWmDgUOZyfTsPBNmVbKpM&amp;utm_term=.261b1b9caf9c\">a county employee managed to steal $6.7 million<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"1\">A local official embezzled $6.7 million from Montgomery County through a years-long scheme of diverting county money meant to grow local businesses, federal prosecutors said in court filings unsealed Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"2\">Byung Il Bang, the former chief operating officer for Montgomery\u2019s Department of Economic Development, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and making a false statement on a tax return at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">He is set to be sentenced Feb. 2, and agreed in court to seek treatment for a \u201cgambling addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County prides itself on its good government reputation. So it&#8217;s a bit of a shock to hear from the\u00a0Washington Post that a county employee managed to steal $6.7 million: A local official embezzled $6.7 million from Montgomery County through a years-long scheme of diverting county money meant to grow local businesses, federal prosecutors said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$6.7 Million Embezzled from the County<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montgomery-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-36m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11927,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}