#StuartSeldowitz #Stuart_Seldowitz #StuartSeldowitzIsRacist The key message here is that engaging in harassment with a history of fraud risks inciting investigations into your past misconduct. Seldowitz, a U.S. foreign service officer, was investigated for defrauding the government by submitting altered travel vouchers with false lodging costs during his assignment in... Geneva, leading to a settlement where he agreed to pay $15,000 in restitution. He later attempted to sue the State Department over this matter but lost the case. Here are the details: Seldowitz, a career foreign service officer, was assigned in 1989 to the Office of Strategic Nuclear Policy. In this capacity, Seldowitz served on the United States delegation to the Nuclear Space Talks in Geneva, Switzerland. Seldowitz's wife, Rosalinda, also traveled to Geneva, serving as the secretary to a deputy negotiator. Seldowitz received per diem paid by the Bureau of Political/Military Affairs, and his wife received per diem paid by the Arms Control Agency. The Seldowitzes rented a private apartment in Geneva, and each obtained a separate receipt from the landlady. Because the receipts reflected the entire amount of rent, Seldowitz crossed out the number of Swiss Francs paid and wrote in half the amount. After submitting the receipts, Seldowitz was told by an administrator in the Bureau of Political/Military Affairs not to annotate the receipts because the per diem amount was not contingent on how much Seldowitz paid for lodging. After this conversation, Seldowitz did not annotate future receipts. However, Seldowitz does not dispute that the entire amount of the rental appeared on the travel voucher which he signed. 1 In 1990, the Office of Audits of the State Department's Inspector General reviewed the travel vouchers of the Geneva delegation. Based on this audit, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigated Seldowitz for submitting a false claim against the United States as a result of amounts claimed on his travel voucher. The findings of the investigation were turned over to the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. In 1995, the United States Attorney informed Seldowitz that he was contemplating a civil prosecution under the False Claims Act, see 31 U.S.C.A. §§ 3729-33 (West 1983 & Supp. 2000), based on a report prepared by the OIG. Seldowitz then met with officials from the State Department, the OIG, and the United States Attorney's Office to discuss the possible civil prosecution. During the meeting Seldowitz mentioned that he had annotated the first housing receipts to show only half of the housing expenses, and an AUSA then showed him allegedly the same receipts from the OIG's files which did not reflect any annotation. Shortly thereafter, Seldowitz entered into a settlement agreement with the government in which he agreed to pay restitution of $ 15,000. Seldowitz later requested copies of his travel vouchers from the National Finance Center and he received the copies in October 1995. Included in the packet from the National Finance Center were annotated receipts showing half the amount of rent. Seldowitz also requested in the fall of 1995 that his attorney obtain copies of the OIG voucher documents, including the receipts showing no annotations. Seldowitz received these materials on April 17, 1996, and for the first time made a side-by-side comparison of the annotated and unannotated receipts. To Stuart Seldowitz: Regrettably, you are unable to use immigration as leverage against me. I invite you to pursue legal action, if these statements are false. VICE VICENews Aljazeera.net • الجزيرة نت Al Jazeera World The Hill The Guardian The Telegraph Daily Mail City & State NY MintPress News Lowkey Rula Jebreal Collin Ruggshow more

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