In a stunning case that has sent shockwaves through diplomatic circles, Levita Almuete Ferrer, a veteran State Department budget analyst, has admitted to orchestrating a sophisticated embezzlement scheme that siphoned more than $650,000 from the U.S. government over a two-year period. Ferrer, a 64-year-old Maryland resident, who served as a senior budget analyst in the department’s Office of the Chief of Protocol during the Biden administration, pleaded guilty to theft of...