Another Fort Sam Houston official charged with stealing from Army program

The Army is facing another embezzlement scandal at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.

Fourteen months after Janet Yamanaka Mello, a former civilian defense worker at Fort Sam Houston, was sentenced to 15 years for stealhading nearly $109 million, another employee has been arrested on a federal charge of theft of government money or property.

Laurent Lant, 55, a Cibolo resident who is chief of banking, investments and insurance for the Installation Management Command at Fort Sam Houston, was arrested and charged with stealing $510,000 intended for the Army’s Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation programs, court records show…

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