Former FAA Employee Convicted of Credit Card Fraud

Office of Inspector General

Title:	Former FAA Employee Convicted of Credit Card Fraud
Date:	March 20, 2001
Type:	Investigation
Summary:	A former FAA mechanic pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, AK to theft of Government property. Ronald Dean Frank, a former employee at FAA’s Las Vegas Operations Branch in Las Vegas, made unauthorized charges on his Government credit card totaling more than $70,000, including purchases from a custom auto body shop. Frank confessed to the theft and abuse of the Government credit card. During the course of the investigation, Frank resigned from FAA.