The corrupt assholes running the EPA don’t seem to think that drug crimes, or child-sex crimes are a big deal, and certainly not something serious enough to warrant dismissal for the criminal EPA employees.
The EPA doesn’t fire criminals employees who have been busted for sex crimes with minors, drug crimes, and more, but instead of being fired, they are given paid vacations!!
One EPA employee admitted that he “knowingly and intentionally engaging in sexual conduct with a child younger than 17 years” and was given 300 hours of paid leave, before being let go and then almost immediately re-hired, with ho documentation of his sex crimes. More reports highlight EPA employees, being paid $120,000 to sit and watch pornography on EPA computer systems, using the EPA network, for days at a time, with no punishment at all, other than receiving a vacation and paid administrative leave for almost a year.
Un-Fucking Believable!!!
Conservatives need to come together and attack the EPA with everything they have, and work tirelessly to completely abolish the corrupt EPA, which only works to destroy American businesses, while continue to ignore the crimes of their employees, who are some of the worst kind of criminals around.
There are many reasons why an employer might sever ties with one of its employees, but apparently at the Environmental Protection Agency, breaking the law is not one of them.
In fact, drug and child-sex offenders received paid administrative leave in two cases of the agency’s use of administrative leave, which an audit called “unacceptable” and cost taxpayers over $1 million.
“Our analysis shows that the EPA’s use of administrative leave appears disproportionate when compared to U.S. Office of Personnel Management guidance related to unacceptable performance and misconduct,” the EPA’s inspector general wrote in an audit released Monday.
Auditors reviewed eight cases where employees received extended amounts of paid leave since 2010. The employees charged 20,926 hours of leave totaling $1,096,868. The cases were first identified by a Government Accountability Office investigation last year.
Investigators blasted the EPA for abusing administrative leave and giving employees paid time off for lengthy periods.
“According to Office of Personnel Management guidance, administrative leave should generally be limited to situations involving brief absences and not be used for an extended period of time. The cases reviewed involved administrative leave of 4 months or more for all but one of the employees included in the audit,” investigators wrote in the report.
“We do not consider 4 months or more to be a brief absence,” investigators wrote.
The report is also raising eyebrows among spending watchdogs who are fed up with the EPA’s abuse of taxpayer dollars.
“The EPA routinely shuts down productive businesses that create jobs. Now we come to find out that they spend $1 million on vacations for sexual predators and potheads working for them. They are out of control,” said Ryan Ellis, tax policy director at Americans for Tax Reform.
For using Americans’ tax dollars to pay for extended vacations for convicted criminals and other misbehaving employees who would have otherwise been fired, the EPA wins this week’s Golden Hammer, a weekly distinction awarded by The Washington Times highlighting the most egregious examples of federal waste, fraud and abuse.
“Once again, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has demonstrated a complete disregard for the rules, and the taxpayers are footing the bill by stretching the administrative leave rules beyond recognition,” said Richard Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government.
One of the employees examined in the audit confessed to “knowingly and intentionally engaging in sexual conduct with a child younger than 17 years,” in the 1990s. The same employee in August 2013 received paid administrative leave after being arrested on a probation violation.
The employee was put on 300 hours of paid leave before being removed from the agency five months later. The worker was then rehired from September 2014 to January 2015, with “no documentation” in their disciplinary action file, according to the report.
Another employee was placed on administrative leave for seven months after being arrested for marijuana possession. The EPA had proposed an indefinite suspension for that employee but ultimately signed a separation agreement and kept that employee on the payroll through November 2014. Once the leave period ended, the employee resigned.
“In the Obama administration’s EPA, a clear message has been sent that if you get in trouble with the law, you will continue getting paid your salary without the bother of showing up to earn it due to this abuse of the administrative leave system,” Mr. Manning said. “Given that this type of personnel issue continues to plague McCarthy, it is clear that she is not up to the basic managerial tasks of her position and should be replaced.”
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