The state had found problems with files tied to hundreds of participants in the program. The 2009 program had 1,4000 participants.

In October 2009, the state sent POET a letter noting the problems and saying approximately 70 files were missing entirely. The state told POET in July 2010 it would not reimburse approximately $1.4 million in costs based on the documentation that POET had produced, and the state gave POET another month to provide additional documents.

The feds say several cooperating witnesses, including POET employees at the time, told them that Hart-Glover instructed them to “reproduce” or “recreate” the files that were needed to maintain the funding.

“Let me make something clear. It is not an option for you to not have the Summer Youth files,” she allegedly told a small group of employees in the summer of 2010, according to the feds.

In August 2010, Hart-Glover wrote a letter that POET sent to the state along with two boxes containing allegedly recreated files and documents. The letter stated that 56 of the approximately 70 missing files were located and submitted, according to the feds.

In March 2011, federal agents interviewed Hart-Glover. The complaint alleges she denied knowing that POET employees falsified documents provided to the state agency; that some birth certificates were missing from the summer youth files; that birth certificates were being recreated by POET employees; and that anyone fabricated the public aid printouts so that the print date appeared to be the date of the application, according to the feds.

She is due in court at 4 p.m. Friday.