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B-196600 1 (1980-03-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjsc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A 4.1 4. UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IN REPLY REFER TO: B-196600 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL March 18, 1980 Mr. R. J. White, Chief Financial Management Division Community Services Administration 1200 19th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 f -, ,-c1 7 fri Dear Mr. White: / This responds to your letter of September 19, 1979, which was forwarded to us from Mr. Robert B. Burrill, Chief Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Government Financial Opert of the Treasury. You request that we grant relief Jesse B.Carter Class A Cashier, Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a loss of $2,320.40. Your letter indicates that pursuant to authority delegated to you by the Director of the Community Services Administration (CSA) you have determined that the loss * * * was the result of a theft that occurred through no fault or negligence on the part of Ms. Carter. We concur with your determination and grant relief to Ms. Carter as requested. The record indicates that the missing funds were contained in two metal cash boxes which were inside a Diebold four drawer type safe prior to their disappearance. The safe was located at the Philadelphia CSA office where Ms. Carter was serving as Cashier. Ms. Carter states that she locked the safe before leaving work at 4:45 p.m. on May 7, 1979. At about 8:15 on the following morning Mrs. Carter found the safe open, the cash boxes forced open, and the money missing. The Federal Protective Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and the Philadelphia Police Department were immediately notified that a burglary had occurred. According to a report prepared by a CSA regional attorney, Ms. Carter and two others, Gregory Greggg and Alfred Ferguson, had access to the combination to the safe. The regional attorney further indicates that Ms. Carter and Mr. Gregg each had the keys to one cash box but neither had the key to both boxes. Mr. Greggs stated that he left CSA at 12:00 noon on May 7, 1979. 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1 authorizes this Office to relieve an accountabie officer or agent charged with responsibility for the physical loss of Govern- ment funds if it concurs with the determinations of the head of the Officer's I RZLIJ 1 10

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