Former Guam resident Janet Yamanaka Mello, an ex-civilian government employee, who plead guilty to stealing $108 million from the army was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. 

Mello was convicted on five counts of mail fraud in addition to five counts of filing a false tax return. It's part of a scheme she carried out over the course of six years while employed by the United States Army.

She used the money, meant to help military children, to bankroll a life of opulence, purchasing lavish properties and 82 vehicles — including a maserati, a Mercedes, a 1954 Corvette and a Ferrari Fratelli motorcycle — and according to the Associated Press she used the funds to purchase $923,000 of jewelry in a single day in 2022.

She acknowledged committing crimes that amounted to one of the biggest thefts of public funds in Texas history.