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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (761)	5/14/2007 2:02:54 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

Auditors also found 27,000 transactions between 2001 and 2002 in which the Pentagon paid twice for the same ticket. The department would purchase the ticket directly and then inex plicably reimburse the employee for the cost of the ticket. (In one case, an employee who allegedly made seven false claims for airline tickets professed not to have noticed that $9,700 was deposited into his/her account). These additional transactions cost taxpayers $8 million. inexplicably? it sounds to me like employees are engaging in expense report fraud, taking advantage of bureaucratic incompetence it frustrates me no end, because even when auditors find the fraud and incompetence rarely do you see anyone accountable... ps.... i'm sorry to read about your friends snag in her treatment....hopefully this is a temporary manifestation while her body adjusts to the chemo