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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was the guy who didn’t have to show up for his job at EPA for years because he convinced them that he was working for the CIA. He even got $500,000 in retention bonuses. They paid for his parking space because he claimed he contracted malaria while in Viet Nam (he did not and was not). He also billed hundreds of thousands for travel. He only got caught because he threw a lavish retirement party and someone noticed that he was still on the payroll afterward.

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/former-epa-staffer-pleads-guilty-in-900000-theft-097527?_amp=true[/quote]

Wow I hope someone has an update on this guy. He's probably out of prison, on to some other scam, and still collecting his EPA retirement! [/quote]

This story is unbelievable. I do not understand how no one questioned his lack of work, travel, expenses etc for so long.  I do not understand. [/quote]

There was a guy running a wine farm while clocked in at the FBI…so no not that unbelievable. Men get away with everything.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/ex-fbi-official-accused-claiming-233635926.html[/quote]

I'm the pp. I didn't mean to imply I don't believe the story. I do but how the heck did this happen? I don't get it. [/quote]

One of the articles I read mentions that he was hired to EPA by a close friend. At the time, he had zero experience in environmental law, which was odd. By all accounts, he did a good job on his first assignment (negotiating the Clean Air Act Amendments). It sounds like it was a combo of having a friend in Admin who would cover for him and having performed well when he was first hired, so no one questioned him after a while. It doesn't sound like the friend was prosecuted, but there is something about that whole set up that was fishy.  [/quote]

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