Montgomery Community Media

Eleanor Milligan, 61, of Silver Spring was convicted in U.S. District Court of embezzling $1.5 million dollars from an employer.  Over a period of six and a half years, from 2009 to 2016, she manipulated the payroll of a D.C.-based business. Using the identities of fellow employees, she made payments to herself. Milligan was convicted […]

Montgomery County’s Park Police is investigating an embezzlement of the Montgomery Parks Foundation, a parks police officer said Wednesday. A lawyer representing the foundation said the loss is in the “six-figure range” and took place over several years. It was first detected in January, Lt. Jeffrey Coe said. The foundation is a nonprofit that raises […]

Byung Il “Peter” Bang received a 15-year sentence for embezzling $6.7 million from Montgomery County on Thursday. Bang, a former official with the Department of Economic Development, had concocted elaborate schemes to hide his thefts, which he used on gambling, prosecutors said. In his sentencing memo to Circuit Court Judge Cheryl McCally, State’s Attorney John […]

A former chief operating official with Montgomery County’s Department of Economic Development was sentenced to four years Friday for an embezzlement scheme that stole $6.7 million from the county, according to a Justice Department statement. Byung Il “Peter” Bang, 59, who lives in Germantown, had pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to the […]

Byung Il “Peter” Bang, a Montgomery County government employee for many years, pled guilty Friday morning in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to embezzling $6.7 million in county funds that were earmarked to assist small businesses, according to a press release form the U.S. Justice Department. Bang, a Germantown resident, was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) […]

A Silver Spring woman was sentenced to five years, all but nine months suspended, for embezzling about $71,000 from Montgomery County PTAs. “The damage is widespread. You don’t have to recover from it. They do,” Judge David Boynton told Lisa Betts, 46, of Silver Spring. Boynton ordered Betts to repay the Montgomery County Council of […]