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Former Sandia employee indicted for stealing federal funds

 Former Sandia Labs employee indicted for stealing federal funds


https://www.krqe.com/news/former-sandia-labs-employee-indicted-for-stealing-federal-funds/

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5775998/Joshua-Cordova-Indictment.pdf

Comments

Anonymous said…
Ok are you know convinced that LANL/Sandia is filled with scientists that are cowboys and steal everything. Culture of theft.
Anonymous said…
Heads will roll on this one. Just the tip of a gigantic iceberg.
Anonymous said…
"Heads will roll on this one. Just the tip of a gigantic iceberg."

A former LLNS employee stole 43,000 pounds of copper worth over 100,000 dollars from 2011 to 2014. Did any heads roll from that?
Anonymous said…
Ok are you know convinced that LANL/Sandia is filled with scientists that are cowboys and steal everything. Culture of theft.

5/11/2021 8:04 PM

Hey, I know several real cowboys. They work hard and long every day, and they are honest and don't steal anything. You need to back off your bigotry against cowboys.
Anonymous said…
The article states that the crime occurred over a 4 year period. You would think that internal audits would have flagged some of the illicit purchases long before this. The theft of the copper at LLNL and earlier with the fellow at LLNL running a porn site on the lab's computer network revealed lax measures within the gates. I wonder if a lenient plea deal will occur so Sandia won't have to testify avoiding the display of internal incompetence.

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