A Montgomery County man and former senior federal employee has been sentenced to two years of supervised probation, including three months of home confinement with electronic monitoring, after pleading guilty to theft of government property in connection with a timecard scheme.
Evester Edd of Silver Spring, 64, was also ordered to pay $20,758.50 in restitution and perform 250 hours of community service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.
According to court documents, Edd was a senior human resources employee with the Peace Corps and worked from the agency’s Washington, D.C. headquarters or an approved telework location. Federal prosecutors said that between September and November 2024, Edd falsely reported hours in the Peace Corps’ time-and-attendance system for periods when he was not actually working for the agency.
Investigators determined that during many of those hours, Edd was instead working remotely as a contractor for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An analysis of his NRC-issued laptop found that on nearly a daily basis, he logged into the NRC network from his residence during hours he reported working for the Peace Corps.
Investigators also found nine days when Edd remotely accessed the NRC network and performed contractor work while physically at his workspace inside Peace Corps headquarters during the Peace Corps workday. According to prosecutors, the false time entries resulted in the Peace Corps paying Edd for hours he did not work.
The investigation also found that Edd sent numerous government documents from agency accounts to his personal AOL email account. Authorities said many of the documents involved employment actions and contained personally identifiable information and other confidential information.
During a search of Edd’s Silver Spring residence, investigators located a thumb drive containing government documents, including records with federal employees’ personally identifiable information. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, some of the documents dated back to Edd’s previous periods of federal employment beginning at least as far back as the 1990s.
Edd retired from federal service in December 2024 while the criminal investigation was pending.
The investigation was led by the Peace Corps Office of Inspector General in partnership with the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the Inspector General and other law enforcement partners. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Baldwin prosecuted the case.
