Fake invoices and gambling debts: How a county bureaucrat stole $6.7 million – The Washington Post

By Jennifer Barrios,

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Byung Il Peter Bang, then a top official in the Montgomery County economic development department, testifies before the Montgomery County Council in 2015. He has pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing $6.7million from the county from 2010 to 2016 and will be sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md.

Peter Bang was shaking.

The 20-year Montgomery County employee sat before the county attorney and his deputy ina conference room in Rockville, staring at the piece of paper in front of him. He was being placed on leave without pay for stealing more than $6.7million in public funds over six years, by far the largest embezzlement scheme in the affluent suburbs history.

Bang…

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