There appears
to be a flourishing culture of financial misconduct at the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA). This culture has been perpetuated by a lack of
administrative oversight leading to millions of taxpayer dollars being wasted.
At a time when D.C.’s fiscal climate is characterized by a national debt that
is spiraling out of control, there is no excuse for any government organization
to be lacking financial accountability…… It must be noted the report focused on
only 80 transactions out of 67,000. Over 90 percent of those transactions were
prohibited or improper. For FY 2012, the EPA had 1,370 cardholders that
transacted more than $29 million in purchases. The EPA also had 309 convenience
check writers who wrote more than 1,000 checks totaling over $500,000. It’s
likely the 80 transactions sampled are the tip of an iceberg characterized by
improper and wasteful spending of federal funds…… The kicker is that at the
height of Beale’s fraud from 2009-2012, his direct supervisor was then OAR
Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy. IER’s report found in just three years
under McCarthy, Beale committed fraud totaling $373,799, almost as high as the
amount of his three previous supervisors combined……To Read More….
My Take – Conclusion with a solution: The EPA is corrupt in more ways than credit cards
and in order to save the nation we need to abolish the EPA.
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