Posted on 06/07/2005 1:41:31 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
Steve Doran helped unearth the case then got fired because, he says, management wanted a cover-up, not the truth.
(CBS) It was the most sensational of all the suspect purchases made with government credit cards. A custom black Mustang, charged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Lillian Anaya. After a year-long investigation, the New Mexico lab exonerated her, and even claims she's the victim.
But a CBS News investigation casts serious doubt on that story.
FBI documents show Anaya "denied any knowledge or involvement" with the car and said she "never heard of" the car company. When the FBI showed her records of calls and faxes between her office and the Mustang dealer, Anaya "could not offer any explanation reasonable or not."
So, as CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports, one was concocted for her by the University of California, which gets taxpayer money from the Energy Department to run the lab.
In a memo, a university attorney poses "a reasonable hypothesis ..." that Anaya was trying to buy lab equipment called "transducers," but dialed a wrong number and "did not realize she was actually speaking to ... the ... Mustang company," which then tricked her into ordering a car.
Upon hearing the explanation, former lab investigator Steve Doran says, "I literally started laughing. There's absolutely no way that their explanation holds water."
Steve Doran helped unearth the case then got fired because, he says, management wanted a cover-up, not the truth.
But no one was more surprised by the "wrong number" defense than the man who sold Anaya the Mustang.
"I talked to her probably on about five to seven occasions," says Tom Thompson, owner of AMP Performance.
He says Anaya knew exactly what she wanted, and it wasn't transducers.
"She wanted a late model Mustang black convertible, with like black leather interior," he says. "She wanted it loaded up with all the options and then she wanted to make it go fast."
CBS News has learned lab auditors flagged thousands more suspect purchases Anaya made as "attractive for personal use" or "unallowed."
Yet the lab declared her innocent and warmly welcomed her "back to the Los Alamos team."
Lab officials hoped closing the case would "restore the public's confidence" in the university's management of the lab. To some, it's done just the opposite. Congress now wants the Energy Department to explain why it swallowed the wrong number explanation, and take a new look at the case.
(CBS) It was the most sensational of all the suspect purchases made with government credit cards. A custom black Mustang, charged by Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Lillian Anaya. After a year-long investigation, the New Mexico lab exonerated her, and even claims she's the victim.
This whole place, the University of California included, is dirty up to it's eyeballs.
Somebody needs a good whuppin' here.
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New Mexico bump
Well, that's one argument for underfunding universities....
The pot calls the kettle what a joke even if it is true CBS has no room to cast doubt on anything let alone investigate
Ha ha ha ha
That's the trouble right there. This ought to be stopped.
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"The pot calls the kettle what a joke even if it is true CBS has no room to cast doubt on anything let alone investigate...
But isn't it fun watching them eat their own!
Yep, the taxpayer. When they started issuing credit cards to government employees, there were those of us who felt that it was a bad idea. That it would be abused and it has constantly.
So, does she still have the car?
Yep, the taxpayer. When they started issuing credit cards to government employees, there were those of us who felt that it was a bad idea. That it would be abused and it has constantly.
I'll second that. And Ms. Anaya and her supervisors and enablers need to be charged with public malfeasance, at the very least.
More fun at Los Alamos:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417842/posts
She certainly took delivery of it. And of another 3900 purchases an independent audit decided were dubious...
Story here.
Just read on Fox News that this Doran guy got a call to meet someone at a bar. He went there and the guy did not show. As he was leaving a bunch of guys pulled him from his car and stopped the shiite out of him.
No. that was an auditor named John Hook.
Correction: Tommy Hook
Just read it again and your right. I have a new rule, never type anything until you are completely awake and have had at least two cups of coffee.
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