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Financial Fraud / Check Kiting / Embezzlement

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does financial fraud / check kiting / embezzlement affect a security clearance?

Financial Fraud / Check Kiting / Embezzlement is an issue decided under Guideline F, Financial. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 66 hearing-level cases, and 15% of the 66 decided ended with access granted (10 granted, 56 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 66 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

66

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

15%

10 granted · 56 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 20(a) · So long ago, or so infrequent, that it is unlikely to recur

    In granted cases
    4
    In denied cases
    1

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 17-03141.h1Granted2018

    The judge found that the applicant's past embezzlement conduct did not pose a current trustworthiness concern. The applicant successfully mitigated the personal conduct issues due to the time elapsed …

  • ISCR Case No. 16-03631.h1Granted2018

    The judge found that the applicant had several delinquent debts totaling over $27,000, but determined that he had made a good-faith effort to resolve these debts. The applicant's financial difficultie…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00612Denied2023

    The applicant in this case was a 51-year-old financial analyst employed by a federal contractor. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) citing security concerns under Guidelines…

  • ISCR Case No. 20-02900Denied2023

    The applicant in this case was a 33-year-old former employee of a federal contractor, who had served in the U.S. Navy from 2008 to 2013. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) c…

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Related issues under Guideline F

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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