Posted on 01/19/2011 11:51:25 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Sacramento - An incompetent prison psychiatrist was kept on the state payroll at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while a state worker with a drinking problem stuffed confidential documents in her desk and took other papers home to avoid doing the work, according to a semi-annual report released by the California State Auditor on Tuesday.
The audit, the result of tips to a state whistle-blower hot line, found eight instances of what Auditor Elaine Howle called substantiated allegations of improper governmental activities. Instances of improper spending and incompetence by workers created costs of just over half a million dollars in the report.
"We feel that reporting on everything we discover and the results and so forth will serve as a deterrent to other employees so they won't engage in these activities," said Margarita Fernandez, spokeswoman for the auditor's office.
The highest dollar figure cited in the report is that of a psychiatrist overseeing parolees for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The psychiatrist - who is not identified by name or location - was accused of negligently underprescribing, overprescribing and inappropriately prescribing medications.
Those accusations were made in June 2006, and the psychiatrist was reassigned to an administrative job in October of that year. .. and the psychiatrist was not terminated until May 2009.
All the while, the psychiatrist received a normal salary, along with two merit-based salary increases, and accrued 226 hours of leave worth more than $29,000 that was paid out when the psychiatrist left, according to the auditor.
"According to our calculations, the amount of salary (the corrections department) paid the psychiatrist during this period exceeded the value of the administrative duties he performed by $366,656," the audit states. During the period, the psychiatrist earned more than $600,000.
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They most likely would have found it earlier if someone wasn’t getting a kick back.
In California state government is becoming a job provider for the inept, the bungled, the perverted, the feminist and “The Diverse.” All one needs to do to verify the aforementioned statement is go to any public office and look.
Read the comments and you can get an idea, as if any further proof was needed, as to why California is going under. Most of the naysayers claim “it’s too small an amount to worry about.”
Reminds me of Tip O’Neill’s “A billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money.”
Who knew? Wow. Incompetence in California? Amazing...
Also go to any school and see what the kids are being taught. Socialism is the text book of the day. Until Californians take back their schools, it will continue.
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