Posted on 10/30/2009 12:37:18 PM PDT by george76
Investigators Searching DIA Clerk's Bank Account For Missing Taxi Fees.
Denver police are investigating the embezzlement of $170,000 from Denver International Airport taxi fees.
A search warrant obtained by 7NEWS shows the scam went undetected for nearly two years.
At least 16 cash collections made by DIA Ground Transportation Department workers between November 2007 and late June 2009 vanished en route from that agency to the airport finance department without making it to the bank.
The probe was triggered when a random DIA internal audit found a $10,000 collection missing in June, sources told 7News. Police said they were alerted about the possible theft on Aug. 28.
Investigators obtained a warrant on Oct. 7 to search the Denver Community Credit Union account of a DIA Finance Department cashier "who is believed to be the last person to have handled the funds in question,"
The missing money comes from fees taxi drivers pay into vending machines for tokens required to enter the airport. Ground Transportation workers remove the cash from the vending machines, count it, and log the amount and deliver it to the finance cashier, according to the search warrant.
The 16 missing cash collections -- each containing about $10,000 -- were "documented in a log as being counted, collected and delivered" to the finance clerk, the warrant stated. "Ground Transportation found that there are no corresponding deposit slips or records from Finance showing these funds were deposited into the bank."
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
And the stupid teller thought they would never miss the money.
No one is balancing their bank statements ?
Well, the cashier was a government employee. They are never the sharpest knives in the drawer.
After 2 years? Doesn’t it amaze you how long it takes incompetent and inept government workers to find a major accounting error???????????
If they were running a private business the error would have never escaped discovery over a 30 day period.
These fools want to manage our health care
7NEWS has the power to obtain a search warrant?
I have follwed a couple of embezzler’s in my work as a self-employed bookkeeper.
I would love to help with this audit—but I live no where near Denver.
The money never made it to the bank, so bank statements are not the source, but are corroborating evidence in tracing the embezzlement.
There is obviously a paper trail problem.
Bet they don’t have duplicates of the counting of the money from the selling of the tokens. Bet they do not use counters in TWOS or THREES.
For this kind of money, there are a number of balances and checks that should/could be in place to catch this far sooner.
They already manage the IRS. Has anyone audited them lately?!
Ground Transportation workers removed the cash from the vending machines, counted it, and logged the amount and delivered it to the finance cashier...
Some one ( or several ) have some explaining to do.
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