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How Much Money Can a State Employee Spend For Online Dating?
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igor-zu on 14 May, 2008 04:57:00
 
Government Accountability Office represented its report, which stated a lot of
different financial affairs with breaking of budget and economical laws and
regulations among state officials of different ranks. Among other, there was
announced that american federal employees charged millions of dollars for
Internet dating and other questionable expenses to their government credit
cards over a 15-month period.
A report by the Government Accountability Office examined spending controls
across the federal government following reports of credit-card abuse at
departments including Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.
The review of card spending at more than a dozen departments from 2005 to 2007
found that nearly 41 percent of roughly $14 billion in credit-card purchases,
whether legitimate or questionable, did not follow procedure - either because
they were not properly authorized or they had not been signed for by an
independent third party as called for in federal rules to deter fraud.
For purchases over $2,500, nearly half - or 48 percent - were unauthorized or
improperly received.
Agencies often could not provide the required paperwork to justify questionable
purchases. Investigators also found that federal employees sometimes
double-billed or improperly expensed  Internet dating for many months without
question from supervisors; the charges were often noticed only after auditors
or whistle-blowers raised questions.
Among the expenditures cited in the report:
U.S. Postal Service workers separately billed more than $14,000 to government
credit cards for Internet dating services.
In the Internet dating case, a postmaster charged $1,100 over 15 months for two
online services. The expenses went unnoticed for more than a year even though he
was under internal investigation for viewing pornography on a government
computer. The postmaster was eventually told to repay the Internet charges but
faced no disciplinary action.
(by http://www.cbsnews.com)