IG: More Than 1,000 IRS Employees Misused Government Charge Cards; Wrote 325 Bad Checks

Cybercast News Service ^ | June 13, 2013 - 12:59 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

[Olog-hai]

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit report that in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge cards issued by Citibank.

The report said that during the two years in question agency employees sent Citibank a total of 325 bad checks written on personal accounts that had insufficient funds to cover them, that agency officials with top-secret security clearances had their charge accounts suspended for failure to pay the balances, and that the IRS had a tendency of being “overly lenient” in disciplining those who misued the cards.

Despite the more than 1,000 IRS employees who misused the charge cards, the inspector general’s report found that the IRS did a “generally effective” job in controlling its employees use of the cards. …

[Olog-hai]

Doublespeak out of the OIG? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? They are either effective or they are not.

[Carriage Hill]

No ifs, ands or buts; they are not.

[dragnet2]

These are the government Nazis and super control freaks who are in charge of investigating, intimidating, threatening, auditing, and demoralizing individuals and groups they wanted to undermine, compromise and discredit on Obama's behalf?

I really dislike controlling leftist Nazis...

[ken in texas]

a “generally effective” job ???

I guess that means less than half of the people with government charge cards misused the it or wrote a bad check.

[LucyT]

IG: More Than 1,000 IRS Employees Misused Government Charge Cards; Wrote 325 Bad Checks

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in a recently released audit report that in fiscal years 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 Internal Revenue Service employees misused government charge cards issued by Citibank.

"... agency officials with top-secret security clearances had their charge accounts suspended for failure to pay the balances, and that the IRS had a tendency of being “overly lenient” in disciplining those (IRS employees) who misued the cards.

[Old Yeller]

,,,,,,,,,,,,, let God sort em out.

[bgill]

This admin is stealing food right out of my children’s mouths and demanding they say thank you for doing so.

[freeangel]

Promote them alll!!!!

[colorado tanker]

While Obummer was trying to close down FAA towers, the IRS sure wasn’t very damn sequestered.

[unixfox]

ANYBODY in the private sector would be fired for this kind of abuse.

But for the scumbags that work are employed at the IRS they abuse OUR money and laugh about it at their parties that WE pay for.

F**K these people, every single one of them. I pray for the Ebola virus to infect the whole damn lot of them.

[Fresh Wind]

Why the heck do IRS officials need top secret clearances?

[RayChuang88]

Oh great. It's the 1992 House of Representatives banking scandal all over again....

[UCANSEE2]

" Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when I'm not kissing babies, I'm stealing their lollipops, but it also means that I keep my options open."

[Chode]

so what? unless there are CONSEQUENCES, and there will be none, it means nothing...

[School of Rational Thought]

Congressional bank issues?

[Sarajevo]

It makes a person wonder if they are “modifying” their tax accounts so they end up paying less or not paying at all.