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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Crime WSDOT Employee Accused of Scamming $67,000 in Overtime Pay

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:34 PM

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has asked the Washington State Patrol and Pierce County Prosecutors Office to investigate a former WSDOT employee for allegedly scamming the state for $67,000 in unearned overtime over the last two years.

According to WSDOT spokesman Lloyed Brown, WSDOT has been reviewing its budget and closely examining overtime when alterations to timesheets showed up. The female employee—who had worked for the department for four years—accused of altering her own time sheets has resigned and Brown says WSDOT has referred the case for criminal prosecution and is also seeking a "civil penalty and restitution with interest."

Brown says the department is continuing its audits but hasn't turned up "any other irregularities."

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Lamefail. Why wait on a criminal case, the state can sue her for breach of contract, and get damages that way, and ALSO refer it for criminal prosecution.

Posted by And we trust THIS agency to build a $4 billion tunnel? on June 30, 2009 at 7:33 PM

give her a promotion she's smarter than her boss.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM

Whoops.

Call me when someone decides to go after Nick Horn and Co. for scamming $2 billion out of Seattle taxpayers for a monorail the City had no real intention of building.

Posted by Gomez

on June 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM

Before we condemn this woman, Lets ask ourselves, What would make a woman do something this desperate. What made her do this? To take such a risk with a great job and throw it all out the window? We all have our demons that lead us down the dark paths in life.

Posted by BeneSteve on July 2, 2009 at 5:11 AM