She will pay it back and all will be forgiven..You and I would be fired and jailed
HUD Employee’s Conviction Upheld for Falsifying Timesheets
A note to government employees: Don’t falsify your timesheets — you could be facing jail time.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a conviction in exactly such a case. Courthouse News Service reports that the appeals court has upheld a conviction in the case of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where the employee, Herman Ransom, falsified his time sheets in order to play tennis and gamble during work hours. He was supposed to be working as a manager.
Ransom was convicted by a jury on 10 counts of wire fraud and 10 counts of theft of public funds.
She should have been fired. In my career I HAVE fired at least half a dozen people for intentionally submitting a falsified time sheet.
That was discussed on the first day of orientation.