Why was a few fuel card assigned to an all-electric vehicle in the first place?
“In April, Harris agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in Virginia for theft of government property — two years of supervised probation, nine days of confinement and a $5,000 fine and restitution for the $5,354 he acknowledged stealing by using the gas cards. “
I don’t see a firing in there.
Back around 2011 timeframe, some financial audit came up with a Homeland Security group in DC. Money-wise, they were OK, but the audit guys looked at the number of employees (roughly 400-500 people) and the fact that they had over 300 vehicles leased to the organization.
After 9-11 and the creation of this particular group...the management convinced themselves that they would be well-suited to authorize one leased vehicle for each employee, and they would use this vehicle during a national crisis....even if the crisis wasn’t in DC but half-way across the US. Then they convinced themselves that they could let each guy drive the car back and forth to home, and have the fuel card for refueling the car.
Tremendous amount of money for a highly abused idea. The audit guys finally convinced the head to give up the leased cars, and they just kept a dozen-odd vehicle for internal usage. No one was punished but millions were wasted over a number of years for this approved situation.
A fish rots from the head down.
this is nothing compared to gov. “telework”
Yes, there are rules but no accountability at all.
4 days a pay period employees can stay home and do little to nothing.
Did he have to use annual leave for the two weeks he will spend in lockup, or will it be counted as admin leave?
In April, Harris agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in Virginia for theft of government property
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But, Huma Abedin, Hillary’s close assistant, bilked $10,000 out of the Government by “double-dipping” and it was decided that it was all a mistake and no law was broken so, she was allowed to just pay it back. What’s wrong with this picture?
Small fry government thief takes $5k, gets caught. Big fish bribes foreigners for millions to provide special deals under State Dept, runs for President.
There is a SOP for fleet vehicles with the federal government.
Every month, the milage on the vehicle is compared to the number of gallons of fued dispensed on the card assigned to that vehicle. If the observed miles per gallon is less than the expected MPG for that type of vehicle, the card is audited.
This is not rocket science.