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Stolen money leads to currency plant worker
By BYRON HARRIS / WFAA-TV FORT WORTH — Eight-hundred employees work at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing facility in Fort Worth. They print billions of dollars of money every year.
And at least one insider has been stealing some of those greenbacks.
Federal agents have issued a warrant for Donald Edward Stokes, who has worked at the plant for more than a decade.
Secret Service agents talked to Stokes last fall when a block of 100 $50 bills called a "strap" disappeared.
He later failed a lie detector test.
Last month, agents went to Stokes' house in Keller to talk to him again. Two pieces of incriminating evidence point to Stokes. When agents went to interview him, they patted down his denim jacket and found a wad of $20 bills. The bills had been stolen from the printing plant.
Then, Stokes' wife told investigators about his Volkswagen Beetle. In his trunk, she said she found two straps of bills and an additional grocery bag with bundles of money.
If Stokes did steal money as charged, there's also a question of whether he acted alone.
"People realize the ramifications for having money stolen from this type of institution, and the Inspector General's office is acutely aware of that," said Secret Service spokesman Mark Lowery.
Leroy Warren, chair of the NAACP Federal Sector Task Force, says there is a problem at the Fort Worth plant. "What you got in there is a situation where buddyism, cronyism and nepotism is ruling the place instead of management." Warren said he has talked to dozens of workers as part of an NAACP investigation of the printing facility. He is critical of the entire management structure in Fort Worth.
"They need to take a broom and sweep the top management out and put some people in there who are competent and rsponsive and concerned about the taxpayers' money," Warren said. "These are taxpayers' salaries; these are taxpayers' jobs. The taxpayer ought to be first."
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing had no comment about the investigation.
Talk about taking your work home with you.



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