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B-191891 1 (1980-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjua0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (.... UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL June 16, 1980 B-191891 4-Mr. Peter B. Bensinger Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration - Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20537 Dear Mr. Bensinger: This refers to your request that our Office relieve all accountable officers at the theastetn Regional Office of the Drug Enforcement tL-Coc' Administration (DEA) from liability for the loss of $1,500. Upon review of the record, we concur that relief should be granted. In order to restore the account, the shortage may not be charged against the 1976 appropriation as you propose, however, but should be charged against DEA appropriations currently available for the expense of the account- able function. The record indicates that between May 12 and June 11, 1976, 15 one hundred dollar bills, out of 650 such bills in a flash roll made up from Imprest Fund money, were replaced by 15 counterfeit one hundred dollar bills. The loss was discovered when Ms. Barbara Woodard, the Imprest Fund Cashier, was counting the money as part of a procedure for returning it to the Imprest Fund after its use in an investigation. The controlling statutory-authority for cases involving physical losses by officers accountable for Government funds is 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1. Basically, the statute allows an accountable officer to be relieved from liability for the loss if our Office concurs in a finding by the head of the department or establishment involved that the accountable officer was acting in his official capacity when the loss occurred and was not negligent. In addition to the cashier, Ms. Woodard, the various DEA investigators who signed for the money for use as a flash roll were also, as you acknowl- edge, accountable officers with respect to the money while it was in their custody. You have made the required findings with respect to Ms. Woodard and all other accountable officers.

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