@Delator @Andy147
You are concentrating on a wrong thing. It is not important what is exactly her job on the station (although she was supposed to monitor incoming guests to the station)
she, as a military person, who just received millions of dollars while on duty as a member of american military force. That is definitely not going to be seen as innocent gesture by her superiors as you seem to believe.
If she had been given that money by a human while Earthside, you'd have a point.
She was given the money by an AI while in orbit...and off duty, i might add, unless being half dressed in your own quarters counts as on-duty these days.
I'm pretty sure her CO is not so daft as to assume that the AI upon which all their lives depend is for some reason going to subvert station operations via bribery to a low ranking officer. Considering their physical autonomy, it probably never gets farther up the chain than that.
Hell, for all we know, Station already told him about it and received approval.
Military can probably take all that money away from her probably while at the same time kicking her out (or worse) from the service.
My guess is Station himself has probably set things up in such a way as for that to be impossible. They might kick her out of the service (not bloody likely...pretty sure Jeph doesn't give two shits about this notion), but the money's probably untouchable in a legal sense.
the military, at least the US military looks at things completely differently.
first, you are never "off-duty".
you may not be actively standing watch, or in uniform at a certain moment... but you're still on duty. that's why there no such thing as double jeopardy for service members. you can be in a barfight on a staurday night, while on leave, and not only have to deal with the legal ramifications in civilian court, but you also face charges for violating the ucmj... no matter what the outcome of your civilian trial is.
2nd, anytime you hold a security clearance, money becomes a very particular subject of concern. also, its not just the military watching, the FBI gets involved and approves and monitors people with clearances as well.
when i was in, i knew a guy who lost his clearance just for winning big at a casino. why? because it, and i quote his letter of reprimand here, which went in his service record, "showed a predilection for a potentially destructive behavior that in the future could place him a position where he may compromise national security through the disclosure of classified information." in other words he lost his clearance, which also meant he lost his job, which he'd had guaranteed in his initial enlistment contract, because it required a clearance... just because he
might, someday, be tempted to sell national security secrets.
3rd, as an officer, you are held to an even higher standard than enlisted folks. you can be prevented from ever reaching flag rank, never being allowed past the rank of captain in the navy, or colonel in the other branches, even if you yourself aren't at fault for something, but someone you are intimately acquainted with does something wrong.
your wife cheats on you while you're deployed? your kid goes to court for a felony? military politics reads that as "you can't control your own family... how can we trust you to command men in battle if you can't even control your own flesh and blood?"