A Texas woman, Janet Yamanaka Mello, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families. Mello, 57, pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing a false tax return.
Mello, a civilian employee at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, was a financial manager responsible for handling funding for a youth program at the military base. She created a fraudulent group called Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development to siphon off funds.
