West Point dean’s office worker sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison for $2.9M fraud scheme

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WEST POINT, N.Y. — A civilian U.S. Military Academy employee who defrauded the government out of $2.9 million has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison.

Bobbie Cyana Ryan worked in the West Point dean’s office and was responsible for coordinating information technology training programs. The 51-year-old Highland Falls, N.Y., resident pleaded guilty in October for scheming to divert payments from the academy to a bogus corporation she controlled.

Ryan was sentenced Tuesday at a federal court in Washington, D.C., to three years and 10 months in prison. She also faces three years of supervised release and must pay the money back.

A routine audit by Army investigators led to the discovery Ryan used government purchase cards to authorize payments for training that never happened.