There was a story in the Seattle Times this morning about an ex-State Patrol Lieutenant who is facing some charges for potentially padding his paychecks with a little bit of extra overtime.
Ex-trooper charged with official misconduct for overtime pay
First off...sometimes, when you are going to be a heinous violator, you need to use some common sense. If you are going to lie about how much OT you are working, you might want to think about showing a little discretion, and not making yourself the HIGHEST PAID State Trooper by a margin of OVER $20,000. That kind of attracts some unwanted attention.
I'm not picking on the State Patrol here. This kind of thing happens EVERYWHERE. The Hanford site where I work has been dealing with a pretty bad case of this that came to light a few years ago(predating my time, luckily), resulting in jail time for several folks. Rest assured, it happening at all levels of Government, and it's been happening for EVER.
I also think you are going to start hearing about it a lot more. As budgets continue to tighten up, auditors are going to be going over expenditures with a fine tooth comb, and you're going to have to a lot more employees having to justify what's written on their time cards.
It's a good time to be on the up and up.
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