West Point Employee Charged in Nearly $3 Million Embezzlement Scheme

The U.S. Department of Justice reports in its press release (quotation, not an independent finding): “WASHINGTON – A Highland Falls, N.Y., woman was arrested today and charged in a criminal complaint for her role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. government by authorizing nearly $3 million in payments to a non-existent corporation for staff training that she knew never occurred at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (West Point), Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and Brig. Gen. Rodney Johnson, Commander of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command announced. According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, Bobbie Cyana Ryan, 50, worked in the Information, Education and Technology Division in the Office of the Dean at West Point. According to the complaint, Ryan was responsible for coordinating information technology training programs for West Point staff. Based on irregularities found during a routine audit, U.S. Army investigators discovered that Ryan, acting as the requesting and approving official, used her government purchase card and cards of her unknowing subordinates to authorize $2.9 million in payments to CWG Enterprises. The complaint alleges that the payments were purportedly for either on-site training instructors or training reference materials when, in fact, no personnel were ever trained and no materials were ever provided. According to the complaint, U.S. Army investigators subsequently discovered that Ryan conducted financial transactions and identified herself as doing business as CWG Enterprises. The complaint alleges that Ryan used a rented mail box as the co”