Washington’s Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Stitely’s $84,000 Payroll Heist

It was a chilly winter morning in Washington D.C. when Reno E. Stitely, the former chief of the voucher unit at the National Bank Service, awaited his transfer from the District Jail to a Federal penitentiary. The 36,000 fine and a 0-to-12 year prison term, handed down the previous day for an $84,000 payroll fraud, seemed like a mere formality. But as the government struggled to collect the hefty fine, the magnitude of Stitely’s deceit began to unravel.