Posted on 05/05/2023 7:38:15 AM PDT by Enterprise
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives intentionally overstated the duties of dozens of employees, labeling them as law enforcement agents so it could pay them more money and costing the government tens of millions of dollars.
Investigators said ATF has been making overpayments since at least 2003. They identified more than 100 jobs in human resources and other administrative areas that were misclassified as criminal investigators.
They said the government wasted roughly $20 million on overpayments in just one five-year period.
ATF officials disputed the exact numbers but admitted to the overall nature of the scam. Officials said they are still trying to clean it up by reassigning some employees while cutting others’ pay.
The employees won’t be asked to pay back their unearned money. ATF has decided to waive the debt, arguing that the employees acted in “good faith.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com ...
Let me guess. Females and minorities hardest hit.
Remember, this agency will come down ruthlessly on a FFL dealer for a mistake in paperwork and put them out of business. But ask the BATF to follow the law? HAHAHAHA! Be serious!
and the same thing at IRS, etc, etc.
Yet another reason to completely defund and shutter the ATF.
Another proof that government is first for “public servants,” and that fraudulent strategies to remunerate themselves are nothing new. There is a reason that the highest media income clusters in and very near Washington, DC. It’s where the pickings are best.
We need a wrecking ball to wreck these agencies.
All ATF jobs are overpaid, as they shouldn’t exist. Welfare for totalitarian wannabes.
I can’t imagine how many people are going to lose their job over this. Wait. Yes, I can - 0.
Forehead slapping newze right? But, if YOU deliberately screw up, lie on forms, fudge the system just a tad.......
Government of the Government, by the Government, for the Government....... and they want your money and not your opinion.
Lets see, ATF is part of DOJ. Garland’s group. Hum, nothing going to happen here.
costing the government TAX PAYERS tens of millions of dollars.
Fraud - so when are they being charged? Never - thought so.
PINGY Thingy.
This is major theft and more, and needs prison sentences in the decades.
This in my humble opinion, should be prosecuted as a RICO crime. It was knowingly perpetrated over a period of years. People need to be held accountable. But who polices fraud these days? Well, the people who COMMIT the fraud!
More corruption in our government??? - I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!...../sarc
A fine portrait of three of the many. Bravo.
LIAR!
So not bad enough they killed so many of our children and adult peers, now this?
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