Fuel fraud: Government employees steal millions from taxpayers at the pump

FILL IT UP OR STICK ‘EM UP?: In the past five years, the federal government has prosecuted $240 million in fuel fraud cases. But the actual number is considered to be much higher. (AP File photo)

By Rob Nikolewski

As a federal employee at Arlington National Cemetery, Bobby Bennett Harris was authorized two fuel cards to maintain vehicles assigned to the nation’s most famous burial site.