spalz/Fraud at the Department of Education
This is what really pisses me off about this asshole.
This is truly sad.
It is really sad that you believe this guy at face value.
A department audit found 21 cases where grant payments totaling $250 million were issued TWICE to the same state school boards and districts. The duplicate payments were recovered.
The money was recovered - so what. This stuff happens all the time in business. When I ran the billing office at a few hospitals, insurance companies were always paying us twice for the same claim. (Oh my god - big business can make mistakes - let's publish a report and slam them.) No, it is never good, but certainly not the first time it has happened in either gov't or business.
$200 million was lost in unauthorized purchases and fraud cases. Some of the money was recovered through court orders of restitution to people outside the department.
While I do not like any fraud - and I would really watch how he uses this word - what per cent of the overall budget is this? Is this $200 million over 3 years? How much was recovered? And, if it is truely fraud, were charges placed on the accused? I would need more information than this to publish a national report and accuse workers of fraud.
There were 21 employees with the power to write checks of up to $10,000 without supervision. And they wrote 19,000 checks totaling $23 million from May 1998 to September 2000.
What were the check for? They could be for perfectly legitimate causes, but our friend Neal would never tell us.
About 230 department employees charged millions to their government credit cards. The audit found that 141 credit card statements, with purchases valued at nearly $1 million, were not signed by a supervisor. And several of the purchases included items that could be used for personal purposes, including computers, software, cell phones, and Internet service.
"Could be used for personal purposes"? What's wrong Neal? There was no evidence that there was personal use of these funds, so you used the word "could" to cover your tracks?
This has got to be the biggest pile of shit that has ever been published. Spalz, you are such a smart guy, why do you take this stuff at face value? Hell, if I can tear it apart, I'd hate to see what meme, dennis or indy do with it.
