Posted on 02/15/2009 12:57:44 PM PST by Copernicus
Fraudulent Pay Claims at ATF?
That's what Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown, editor and publisher of Soldier of Fortune Magazine claims in a special report he's asking activist gun owners to share far and wide.
ATFE Special Agents were deployed in Iraq on 90-day TDY assignments between 2003 and 2008. During that time, they were paid $4,175,731.00 in unauthorized and unlawful overtime pay. They filed fraudulent claims for the overtime and ATFE senior officials did nothing to monitor the claims or review them for conformity with federal law and regulations. In other words, the ATFE Special Agents, law enforcement officers who are sworn to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, filed false time and attendance reports claiming pay for overtime which was not worked and for which payment was not authorized under federal law.
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(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Since this is an opinion column Codrea covers more than one topic.
For my money the interesting comments and links are for the ATF Pay Claims, the Gillibrand stuff is just business as usual.
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