Audit Finds Nearly $50,000 In Credit Card Fraud At Education Department

Washington Post:

U.S. Department of Education employees inappropriately used government credit cards to purchase $49,500 worth of goods and services, including meals, items at clothing stores and rental cars, for personal use, according to a review by the department's inspector general.

Auditors examining a sample of business travel expenses for fiscal 2006 found $18,256 in inappropriate charges made by 34 employees. The charges included payments to clothing retailers and restaurants near their homes or office.

Twenty-nine people used bank cards to withdraw about $17,600 more than allowed under the department's travel allowance for meals and incidentals. Four department workers made $13,570 in bank card withdrawals when they weren't on business travel. One logged 44 withdrawals totaling $8,560.

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Comments

[tililek]

HOW LONG HAS THIS BEEN GOING ON? DID THIS OCCUR AT ANY, THE SAME, OR MORE DURING PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS? OR IS THIS AN ADMINISTRATION OF 'MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO'?

[haydesigner]

Excellent work.
Can we now start to audit the departments (*cough* Defense *cough*) that have had fraud on a scale that makes this seem like gumball change?

[TScheisskopf]

Quite a little disconnect from reality with those government workers, isn't there?