A former United Nations and National Labor Relations Board employee is charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments from the two agencies.
Prosecutors said 51-year-old Jeffrey K. Armstrong, of South Riding, Va., was indicted in federal court in Alexandria on nine counts of wire fraud. He allegedly defrauded the two organizations by holding positions at both at the same time and lying to avoid disclosing that.
He began working as an assistant chief for security and safety at the U.N. in New York City in March 2008, according to the indictment. In February 2009, he applied for a job as the head of a security branch for the NRLB in Washington and began working there that April.
Between April and September 2009, Armstrong concealed his dual employment from both agencies, the indictment says. The indictment says he dissuaded NLRB personnel from contacting his U.N. supervisor, submitted inaccurate employment forms to the NRLB and submitted fake medical leave information to the U.N. that said he was undergoing treatment.
During that time, he received about $100,000 in salary payments from the two organizations through fraud, prosecutors said.
Armstrong was taken into custody Thursday, prosecutors said. He could face up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud count.
