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Former CISA employee pleads guilty to defrauding government with secret contractor jobs
Prosecutors say Richeline Fung secretly held contractor jobs tied to six agencies and claimed up to 33-hour workdays while working full time for the federal cyber agency.
A former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding the government of nearly $250,000 by secretly holding multiple federal contracting jobs and submitting timesheets that sometimes claimed she worked 33 hours in a single day.
Richeline Anisso Fung pleaded guilty to a federal false claims charge, the Justice Department announced.
She worked full time at CISA from September 2016 until October 2025. Between January 2021 and August 2024, she simultaneously held contracting positions supporting the Drug Enforcement Administration and the departments of Energy, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Some of that work was performed through RAF Pro-Consulting, a Florida company Fung established in 2020. She concealed the overlapping jobs from CISA and the contractors, according to prosecutors.
The arrangement resulted in extraordinary claims on her timesheets. In February 2022, Fung was working for CISA and three contractors supporting the DOJ, Agriculture Department and Federal Highway Administration. Her reported working time exceeded 24 hours a day on 15 occasions that month.
She claimed to have worked 33 hours on four consecutive days and 32 hours on a fifth, prosecutors said.
Fung admitted that she was able to conceal the overlapping employment because the positions were carried out remotely. Justice did not disclose her role at CISA or describe the work she performed for the other agencies.
Nextgov/FCW could not immediately reach Fung for comment. As part of a plea agreement, she must repay nearly $250,000 to the government, with sentencing scheduled for Jan. 20.