A former senior State Department budget analyst who served under the Biden administration has admitted to stealing more than $650,000 from the agency in a scheme that lasted over two years, federal prosecutors announced.

Levita Almuete Ferrer, 64, of Maryland, pleaded guilty to theft of government property on Wednesday, acknowledging that she abused her signature authority over a State Department checking account between March 2022 and April 2024. Ferrer worked in the Office of the Chief of Protocol, a role that gave her direct access to department funds.

According to prosecutors, Ferrer wrote 60 checks to herself and three more to a person with whom she had a personal relationship. She printed and signed all 63 checks before depositing them into her personal bank accounts. The total theft: $657,347.50.

To cover her tracks, Ferrer used a QuickBooks account to create the appearance of legitimate payments, entering her own name as the payee before printing the checks. Afterward, she altered the records to replace her name with those of real State Department vendors — a tactic designed to conceal her embezzlement from any financial review.

Ferrer, who also used the alias Levita Brezovic, is scheduled for sentencing on September 18 and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. As part of her plea deal, she has agreed to repay the stolen funds in full and is subject to a forfeiture money judgment for the same amount.

The Biden-era theft revelation comes as the State Department faces another embarrassment — this time involving a member of President Trump’s Cabinet. Early last month, a bodyguard from Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) detail was arrested in Brussels after what witnesses described as “erratic” and aggressive behavior at the upscale Hotel Amigo.

Sources told The New York Post that the experienced DSS agent became furious when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar after hours. The situation escalated when the hotel’s night manager and other staff urged the agent to return to his room, prompting a physical confrontation. Police were called, and the agent allegedly resisted, leading to his arrest.

The U.S. Embassy in Brussels intervened, and the agent was released the same day. Secretary Rubio was staying at the same hotel later that week while attending a NATO leaders’ meeting but was not present during the incident.

DSS agents are tasked with protecting U.S. diplomats, securing embassies, and investigating crimes such as passport and visa fraud.

Multiple State Department sources told the Washington Examiner that shift supervisors — including the arrested agent — are severely overworked. “Shift supervisors [on Rubio’s detail] have an incomprehensible workload,” one insider said. “They are responsible for all the agents under them, scheduling, evaluations, and a preposterous amount of admin work [as well as] performing the actual shift work.”

The source added that they often work six or seven days a week, and the agent’s behavior may have been the result of “incomprehensible strain” — a workload the DSS must fairly evaluate before taking disciplinary action.

“The Diplomatic Security Service is aware of allegations of an incident involving an employee in Brussels, Belgium, on March 31, 2025,” a State Department spokesman told the Examiner. “While we don’t discuss specific personnel matters, the allegations are being examined.”

Rubio, one of President Trump’s most trusted advisers, currently serves as Secretary of State and has also been appointed interim national security adviser, acting administrator of USAID, and acting archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration.