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FBI, others join inquiry into no-show Norfolk employee
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | September 1, 2010 | Patrick Wilson

Posted on 09/01/2010 4:52:05 AM PDT by csvset

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Twelve years. Someone on the inside had to be in on this.
1 posted on 09/01/2010 4:52:09 AM PDT by csvset
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Wouldn’t it be even crazier (but like our wonderful bureaucracies) if the money was going into a never-accessed bank account and the woman actually was earning a living elsewhere.


2 posted on 09/01/2010 4:56:19 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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Well, now there’s a non-job opening!

I wonder if I can nontelecommute to not do this job from Dallas.


3 posted on 09/01/2010 4:56:36 AM PDT by gthog61
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Well, since she is off the payroll now, is she eligible for her 99 weeks of unemployment pay?


4 posted on 09/01/2010 5:00:28 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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So, does this job now count as being saved?


5 posted on 09/01/2010 5:02:38 AM PDT by Paladin2
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"Every employee has a performance evaluation every year, and their increases or any changes are based on that."

Should be fairly easy to find out at least one link in the chain of this fraud ...

... who signed her performance evaluations?

6 posted on 09/01/2010 5:02:53 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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SOmeone being blackmailed? Who had she had an affair with?


7 posted on 09/01/2010 5:03:50 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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With your political leanings they would never give you the job. Not that you could stand to steal money like that.


8 posted on 09/01/2010 5:04:30 AM PDT by magslinger (DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)
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One little no show job and one little house and people lose all perspective. If you want to investigate something, go look into how many Federal retirees who are getting really nice pensions are actually still alive. My bet is you can find more than a few that have been gone for years but still collect that check and still vote democrat every election.
9 posted on 09/01/2010 5:06:15 AM PDT by Rashputin (Obama is already insane and sequestered on golf courses or vacations so you won't know it)
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“The agency employs about 300 workers.”

299 or 301? Either way, how can the organization justify this many workers?


10 posted on 09/01/2010 5:07:39 AM PDT by pappyone (New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
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I agree that there has to be at least one more to make the scheme work.

I once lived in an area (a US island) in which the local government workers also had a side business. For instance a government truck driver would be a taxi driver(tourist industry big). The truck driver would clock in and instead of getting in the truck would drive away in his cab. The government hired, purposely hired more government workers than they needed and paid them above the average. This was, probably is a well known racket.

11 posted on 09/01/2010 5:08:24 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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It’s difficult to shake the feeling that all this righteous indignation is not over the missing funds but over the embarrassment to a load of bureaucrats.


12 posted on 09/01/2010 5:09:17 AM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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City Councilman Andy Protogyrou, a criminal defense attorney, sent an e-mail to the city clerk saying he wants the city to recommend that a criminal case be prosecuted.

Thank you Councilman Protogyrou. A recent theft of $80,000 from the local mass transit agency was going to go without prosecution.

Thankfully, word leaked out and that has now changed.

Two ex-HRT employees indicted over missing cash (80K, HRT executives chose not to prosecute)

Why are these government agencies so rife with corruption? Anyone? Bueller?

13 posted on 09/01/2010 5:10:10 AM PDT by csvset
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What is sickening is that their are federally funded
operations like this all over the country, usually under names like “Community Action Organization”.
The Feds supply the money for these operations that run free bus services, free cheese distribution, and whatever scams that suck federal funds.

I was contracted by one in Tennessee to provide radio communications services.
The waste and incompetence is mind staggering.


14 posted on 09/01/2010 5:10:14 AM PDT by AlexW
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Exactly. She must have a yearly performance evaluation. Her direct superior was in on this. And if the boss changed over the years I would suspect a much bigger scam.


15 posted on 09/01/2010 5:11:11 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: csvset

Well, wanna bet there are more phantom employees.

The money was going somewhere or to something, was she keeping the money or was she just a drop off point?

The management definitely had to know and accountants probably had to know as they signed off accounts.

The immediate supervisors are in a heap of crap because they are directly in the toilet.


16 posted on 09/01/2010 5:15:04 AM PDT by sunmars
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Ironically, the fact that she was not doing anything to spend more of other people’s money on worthless projects may make her, comparatively speaking, a plus.


17 posted on 09/01/2010 5:20:53 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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We call them “Ghost Workers”....every union run jobsite has them.....


18 posted on 09/01/2010 5:22:39 AM PDT by joe fonebone (They will get my Fishing Rod when they pry it from my cold dead fingers)
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Do a search on Alonzo McGlone, just for the heck of it!


19 posted on 09/01/2010 5:23:15 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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Very interesting! It appears her husband is suing Wal-Mart for wrongful termination! I guess they exected him to actually show up! ( Actually, he was hired as a greeter and starting using a cane at work and was let go, just to be clear )


20 posted on 09/01/2010 6:15:02 AM PDT by Rdev
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