Posted on 12/01/2014 2:13:13 PM PST by jazusamo
EXCLUSIVE: Eight Environmental Protection Agency employees who racked up a total of more than ten years’ worth of paid “administrative leave” between 2011 and 2014 -- valued at more than $1,096,000 -- apparently did so because they were involved in “cases of alleged serious misconduct,” Fox News has learned.
In a memorandum sent from EPA’s acting assistant administrator, Nanci E. Gelb, to EPA’s inspector general, Arthur Elkins -- a draft also was given to Fox News -- the agency has revealed that at least three of the affected employees have now left EPA.
All of the eight “were or are subject to a disciplinary process,” an EPA official told Fox News, adding that, “we cannot comment on the circumstances of their departure from the agency for those who are no longer employed by EPA.”
The exact nature of the alleged wrongdoings has not been revealed, nor the specific times when they took place. But the lengthy absences -- up to three years in one case -- seem to indicate that the alleged misconduct actions, whether linked or separate, cover a substantial period of time, even after their discovery.
The document from EPA’s Gelb to EPA’s inspector general, intended as an elaboration on the highlighted periods of administrative leave, made no mention of the issue of wrongdoing in relation to the departures or to the leaves granted to any other employee included in the OIG report.
In response to questions from Fox News, OIG officials indicated that they had, to date, received no word from EPA in any form about any misconduct allegations.
The revelations about misconduct came as an email response to questions from Fox News regarding the extraordinary paid absences.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Can we put them all on paid leave for another ten years?
Yep, what a mess and it’s not just the EPA.
The EPA should be the ones you call for a cleanup after a bunch of teens dump shopping carts in your local river/stream
Get promoted to White House duties.......
Should be a statist version of Monopoly... Statistopoly:
“DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT Collect $200! Go Directly to Administrative Leave!!”
Yes please. Time to get rid of the nasty trick that old Tricky Dick played on us all
Made me smile. I love Bubbles! He is an entrepreneur and he does it all for the kitties.
Unable to lie under oath? Didn't meet their quota's to wrongfully close coal mines? They are climate deniers? What? What was the offense?
My guess is that they took vacation and sick days, but never reported it on their timecards.
This is small potatoes compared the the TELEWORK FRAUD that is going on in every guv Agency right now. They are getting paid to stay home (green agenda, reduce carbon emissions) with NO oversight, and the telework policy (must remain at your Home duty station)is constantly being violated. Hear reports of them at the grocery, at mall, at restaurants all the time. Supervisors know what is going on and do nothing because they must show a certain quota of “teleworkers”.
Major fraud perpetrated on the American people, all in the name of global warming, climate change.
EPA being a cesspool of Marxism, “misconduct” is the tip of the iceberg.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.