Posted on 05/16/2007 8:07:56 AM PDT by george76
But complaints fell on deaf ears, ex-employee says.
Michelle Cawthra, the state tax department supervisor accused of stealing $10 million of public funds, was abusive and demeaning to subordinates for years, according to a worker who quit over what he called her "dysfunctional management."
But despite employees' repeated complaints to top management, Cawthra seemed untouchable, James McClarnon said.
"The management of Michelle Cawthra and (her boss) Janet Swaney has made Income Tax Accounting into the most dysfunctional section I have ever worked in," McClarnon, 49, wrote in an exit interview.
McClarnon, a tax supervisor who reported to Cawthra, quit March 16, after seven years in the department.
"Employee turnover is very high in this unit because of the toxic environment management has created," McClarnon wrote. "I know senior management knows it's bad, but they don't want to make the hard decisions that need to be made to resolve this problem."
Prosecutors allege that Cawthra, a trusted supervisor in the Department of Revenue, funneled bogus refunds into accounts controlled by her boyfriend, Hysear Don Randell.
Both are in Denver County Jail on $10 million bail.
Six weeks before Cawthra was arrested April 28, McClarnon, who reported directly to her, issued a final alert about his boss in his exit interview. He was Cawthra's third top employee to resign or demand transfer in about six months...
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They just happened to have it........
Now she’s all sad and puffy-eyed and crying. how sad...../extreme sarcasm
Was this state or federal income tax employee?......
Ms Cawthra and Boyfriend.
“Swaney, Cawthra’s supervisor, has been placed on administrative leave for dismissing underlings’ early alarms about suspicious refunds approved by Cawthra and for accepting her explanations, according to court documents.” Underlings would have done better to go directly to the top, and to the media, about this. You have to wonder how many people knew or suspected what was going on and kept quiet.
They apparently have spent much of the $10 million.
State
State?....Man, somebody needs some serious management training...........Nobody noticed her lifestyle, clothes, cars, vacations that were way beyond her paygrade?..........
I wonder if she gave any to Hillary?
“State?....Man, somebody needs some serious management training...........Nobody noticed her lifestyle, clothes, cars, vacations that were way beyond her paygrade?..........”
If she had just chilled out and been a little more discrete no telling how long she could have gone on.
All things must come to and end. Now, what about her supervisor? She should be fired and all those who quit should be considered for replacements for both these jobs..........
They were building a new home too...
And the local bank sent forms to the FBI as to suspicious money transfers. I do not know the form number, but the FBI apparently ignored these written reports. Maybe the FBI gets too many forms to read...so they just file them like the arc in Raiders of the Lost Arc ?
Your tax dollars at work . . . .
key suspect in the $10 million state tax agency theft was caught on a surveillance camera last month at a Lone Tree FedEx Kinkos arranging to transfer $710,000 to an Ohio bank.
The man on the surveillance tape, Hysear Don Randell, a self-described “multimillionaire” hip-hop and sports entertainment entrepreneur, has been arrested. So has his girlfriend, Michelle Cawthra, a supervisor at the state Department of Revenue accused of funneling bogus tax refunds to Randell’s bank accounts for more than a year.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5533432,00.html
Didn’t you know? The FBI currently has a policy of only investigating Republican politicians.
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