EPA Employees Used Gov’t Purchase Card to Spend $14,985 on Fitness Memberships

[rangerrebew]

EPA Employees Used Gov’t Purchase Card to Spend $14,985 on Fitness Memberships
Purchases did not comply with any of the internal controls that were tested
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AP

BY: Ali Meyer   
February 26, 2017 5:00 am

Environmental Protection Agency employees used their government purchase cards to spend $14,985 on fitness memberships, according to an audit by the inspector general of the agency.

With the goal of assessing the risk of illegal, improper, and erroneous purchases made on the EPA's purchase card, the auditors evaluated 18 transactions totaling $48,345 and found that none of them complied with any of the internal controls that were tested.

Some of these controls require that officials give approval, that records be properly placed in the vendor's banking system, and that transactions be reviewed by the card holder within 10 days of posting.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-purchase-card-fitness-memberships/

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The fitness memberships weren't illegitimate, per se.  Here are the problems noted:

Comptroller General Decision B-240371, dated January 18, 1991, states that appropriated funds can be used to establish health fitness programs, but the purchase of fitness club memberships for the use of employees on a continuing basis should be undertaken only when all other resources have been considered and rejected, and when employee use of the program will be carefully monitored as part of a bona fide preventive program related to health.

Comptroller General Decision B-288013, dated December 11, 2001, notes advance payment of fitness memberships prior to the employees’ use of the facilities, when the government could have requested monthly invoices, violates the advance payment provisions of 31 United States Code, Section 3324.

[GtHawk]

Here is one the EPA employees when questioned about the misuse.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ

[LonestarDream]

Here is one the EPA employees when questioned about the misuse.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ

Hopefully, the employees can be fired.