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Virginia man charged with fraud for holding two full-time jobs as security official for U.N.

A former Virginia employee of the United Nations was arrested last week and accused of obtaining more than $100,000 in salary payments while concurrently holding jobs at the U.N. and the National Labor Relations Board, Justice Department officials announced.

According to a statement from the Department of Justice, Jeffery K. Armstrong, 51, of South Riding, Va., was charged with nine counts of wire fraud. The indictment states that Armstrong failed to notify his superiors at both entities of his concurrent employment.

In his full-time position as assistant chief of the Security and Safety Service within the Department of Safety and Security at the U.N., Armstrong was responsible for physical security of U.N. facilities in New York City, among other functions.

According to the indictment, Armstrong received an annual salary from the U.N. of approximately $160,000. The indictment alleges that in February 2009, after working at the U.N. for almost a year, Armstrong applied for a position as chief of the security branch within the Division of the Administration at the NLRB in Washington, D.C. According to the indictment, Armstrong began work at the NLRB on April 13, 2009, with an annual salary of approximately $121,000.

The indictment alleges that between the middle of April and the end of September 2009, Armstrong was an employee of both the U.N. and the NLRB, receiving more than $100,000 in salary payments from the two entities.

The Department of Justice accuses Armstrong of concealing his dual employment from both employers by, among other things, dissuading NLRB personnel from contacting his supervisor at the U.N., submitting incomplete or inaccurate employment forms to the NLRB, and causing to be mailed to the NLRB false correspondence suggesting that he no longer worked at the U.N. In addition, Armstrong is accused of submitting medical leave documentation to the U.N., indicating that he was unable to work and was undergoing medical treatment, despite his full-time employment at the NLRB.

If convicted, Armstrong faces 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 on each wire fraud count.

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