Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hey, it's Iraq, who's going to notice?
At least that was what a group of FBI agents in Iraq thought, so far away from the close oversight of their bosses in DC.
FBI agents temporarily deployed to Iraq received an average of about $45,000 in excessive overtime because they billed the government for 16 hours a day throughout their 90-day assignments, according to a Justice Department audit.These lads are lucky old J Edgar is long dead. In his day, he and Clyde would have had a fresh stable of buttboys after something like this.
The audit, released Thursday by Inspector General Glenn Fine, found the agents routinely submitted the overtime with the blessing of their managers from 2003 through 2007. The report says the excessive overtime totaled $7.8 million.
"The FBI inappropriately permitted employees to regularly claim overtime for activities that are not compensable as work, such as time spent eating meals, exercising more than 3 hours per week, and socializing," the report said. The socializing included going to movies and cocktail parties.
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