The Army civilian employee charged in an alleged embezzlement scheme is suspected of misappropriating even more money than what was revealed in a criminal complaint last week.
The investigation into Laurent Lant, 55, chief of banking, investments and insurance for the Installation Management Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, has “so far” determined that he’s bilked the Army of $860,000, a special agent with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service testified during a Wednesday court hearing.
“We still don’t know how much money he has taken and has got squirreled away,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Yuen later told U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad…