A former United Nations and National Labor Relations Board employee has been sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison for fraudulently obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments from the two agencies.
Jeffery K. Armstrong was also ordered to pay $128,153 in restitution to the two agencies.
Armstrong, 52, of South Riding, Va., was charged with wire fraud in June in federal court in Alexandria and convicted in an October jury trial. He 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 court documents. 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 the two agencies, while receiving salaries from both. 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, according to prosecutors and court documents.
