July 15, 2008
MPD Officer Accused of Fraudulent Overtime
WTOP's Mark Segraves discovered that a veteran MPD officer is being investigated for fraud due to allegedly being paid $200,000 in improper overtime. The officer had to hand in her badge and gun and has been reassigned to desk duty during the investigation, but she's still on the payroll. The investigation into her time sheets has been handed over to the U.S. Attorney's office. This story reminds us that excessive overtime has long been a problem that plagues D.C. government agencies and costs the city money.
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any relation to harriette walters?
can we take all these people and use them to fill potholes or something?
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Gee, is she putting in for any overtime while she is assigned to the desk job??
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Well, she didn't do this herself. Every place I've worked requires your boss to approve your time sheets. If MPD lets their officers fill out and approve their own time sheets, then an investigation into citywide overtime will make this $200k look like a drop in the bucket.
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I say they just make her work $200,000 worth of overtime and call it even.
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You haters just aren't seeing the big picture.
This brave civil servant worked in firearms training.
Clearly she knew the SC decision was coming down.
Obviously her every waking moment, and most of her sleeping moments, were focussed on that.
She deserves the OT. And maybe a raise. And a paid vacation.
I mean, isn't that the DC way? It's worked for 40 years. Why change now?