The word requisition has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 13 in “Amtrak Worker Sold Railroad Equipment for Years to Line His Pockets, U.S. Says” by Jesus Jiménez:
For more than seven years, the authorities said, Jose Rodriguez of Brick, N.J., a senior engineer at Amtrak, obtained more than 100 chain saws and hundreds of chain saw parts from the railroad, claiming he needed them for various service projects.
But instead, according to prosecutors, Mr. Rodriguez, 49, sold the equipment either through an online auction service or directly to purchasers — and lined his pockets with the proceeds.
… Mr. Rodriguez took “advantage of his role as a senior engineer at Amtrak, to requisition and sign out” the chain saws and their parts “upon false pretenses” that the equipment would be used for Amtrak projects, according to the charging documents.
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