A former high-level official a the National Library of Medicine was sentenced Monday to one year probation and ordered to perform 160 hours of community service for lying on his financial disclosure forms.
Jack W. Snyder, 57, of Potomac, was also ordered to pay a $200,000 fine. On disclosure forms, Snyder denied he had received income from a private consulting business, when he actually had earned about $162,234 from the outside job. Snyder also used government computers and his time on the job to prepare expert reports and invoices for his consulting business. Between 2003 and 2005 Snyder earned a total of $468,810 from his federal job and $589,450 from his private job.
“Government employees owe their loyalty to the taxpayers,” said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein. “If government employees want to earn outside income related to their official work, they can do so after truthfully disclosing the matter.”
