Posted on 02/26/2017 7:59:24 AM PST by ColdOne
Environmental Protection Agency employees used their government purchase cards to spend $14,985 on fitness memberships, according to an audit by the inspector general of the agency.
With the goal of assessing the risk of illegal, improper, and erroneous purchases made on the EPA's purchase card, the auditors evaluated 18 transactions totaling $48,345 and found that none of them complied with any of the internal controls that were tested.
Some of these controls require that officials give approval, that records be properly placed in the vendor's banking system, and that transactions be reviewed by the card holder within 10 days of posting.
The auditors found that 2 of the 18 transactions, totaling $14,985, were for fitness memberships. Three other transactions were made to vendors who were considered high risk, which requires further documentation for review.
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Extrapolate this result to every other transaction at every agency covering gazillions of dollars. The only way to "fix" it is to eliminate departments, zero-out budgets, fire or pension off employees.
The EPA will be loosing weight real soon. Alot of fat liberals will be removed!!
The US taxpayers could save billions by shutting down the EPA. Use the money to build the Trump Wall and save even more billions by not feeding, housing, educating and incarcerating illegal aliens. We are not tired of winning, Mr. President!
Right, but first - criminally charge these morons.
Every government credit card should be immediately cancelled and only reissued after an audit of each card holder.
It takes endurance shutting down all those businesses.
Pray America woke
I would see this as an excellent opportunity to remove those employees for fiduciary malfeasance, and use the technique to get rid of hundreds or thousands more besides.
It’s unlikely that they’ll lose their jobs. They might be “counseled” about following procedures a little better for a little while.
Like teachers, many Federal employees are covered by union contracts that make it nearly impossible to fire them, no matter what.
When I worked as a sales rep for a major US corporation, we had to submit an expense report to get reimbursed for weekly costs in the field. Tight scrutiny prevented any cheating.
I suspect Trump has such an approach in his biz.
Fire their azzes,.....
The auditors found that 2 of the 18 transactions, totaling $14,985, were for fitness memberships.
2 fitness memberships cost around $7,500 each?
Can’t be fired, eh? Then pull the cards and garnish their wages until it’s all paid back. Make them now use their personal cards and submit expense reports for reimbursement.
When I was a typist for the Army Corps of Engineers, many years ago, the procedure was for every transaction to be examined before reimbursement was approved. Not anymore.
I believe the reasoning was that it cost less, in the big picture, to pay for people’s trips to Vegas and gym memberships than to employ regiments of “Voucher Examiners” in every agency.
My question: is it a government card issued to a civil servant, or is it to the an organization? The bureaucracy in management still has to approve. That makes a big differences as well. I dont know if EPA’s credit cards work the same as my organization. But the government doesn’t pay the card’s balance due. The bill is sent to my name and home address, and my credit is impacted if I do not pay the balance. I am reimbursed directly from the government for “approved expenses” that I claim. I must pay all expenses on my card whether they have been refunded by the government or not (and the government is not always timely). I cannot use my personal credit card on official business, and I do not know who collects the kickbacks from the government credit card companies. Rumor is that it goes to some house member’s favored constituent(s).
LOL!
These people NEVER pay it back. It’s a scam and also how they spend all their budget money, millions in each agency and not even a slap on the wrist. Criminals.
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