Stephen L. Gaskell
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 271
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The Dept. of Vet. Affairs, Office of Insp Gen. reviewed allegations of salary and expense account over-expenditures, overtime abuses, and fiscal mismanagement in the Office of Congressional Affairs. During the audit, additional complaints were raised concerning: employee favoritism, creation of a polarized work environment, mismanagement of consultant contracts, improper reimbursable interagency work details and temporary staff appointments, lack of controls over time and attendance records, purchase card mismanagement, inappropriate use of gov¿t. travel cards, assign. of unnecessary pagers to staff, poor position mgmt., and other inefficient workload processing issues. This audit substantiated the allegations.