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B-198949 1 (1980-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjup0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /- ~- UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASH!NGTON, D.C. 20543 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL B-198949 July 15, 1980 The Honorable William A. Medina Assistant Secretary for Administration Department of Housing and Urban Development Washington, D.C. 20410 Dear Mr. Medina: This is in response to your request, transmitted to the General Accounting Office (GAO) by the Chief Disbursing Officer, Department of -C the Treasury, that Barbara J. Douglas, Class B Cashier, and C. Joan Montfort, Class A Cashier, both employed with the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (FDAA) Office in Chicago, Illinois, be relieved liability for 0 shortage in imprest fundsof $1,000 and $5,000, re- spectively. For the reasons stated below, we grant relief from liability. The record submitted to us contains a Federal Protective Service (FPS) report which states that some time between 3:15 p.m., on May 6, 1979, and 7:55 a.m., on May 7, 1979, the front door to the office, in which the cashiers worked, was forced open and the safe containing the separate imprest funds and the vouchers and receipts pertaining to them was stolen. The report indicates that the safe contained $3,000 in cash, although the Accounting Division of the Chicago Regional Office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (FUD) indicates that the exact amount of the cash loss cannot be determined. The report also indicates that the office was secured for the day by the Adminis- trative Assistant and another employee at approximately 3:15 p.m., on May 6, 1979. The burglary was discovered the next day upon the arrival of an employee of the office at 7:55 a.m., who discovered that the front door had been forced open. Besides being reported to FPS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Chicago police, the Regional Office of Inspector General, the Regional Disoursing Office (U.S. Treasury), and the Secret Service were notified of the burglary. The FBI received a tip concerning two possible suspects. However, the FBI has failed to link these two possible suspects with the theft of the safe. The case remains in an open status and the stolen safe and its contents have not been recovered. Our Office is authorized to grant accountable officers relief from liability for physical losses of Government funds under the specific conditions delineated by 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1 (1976), which provides in per- Itinent part: N-.' K' ___ -~ C C,> /Y-3 h k11-1- - ku W'.

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