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B-261312 1 (1995-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwvt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-261312 February 5, 1995 Steve E. Turner Director, Defense Finance and Accounting Service Department of Defense Kansas City, Missouri 64197-0001 Dear Mr. Turner: This responds to your request that we grant relief, under our authority in 31 U.S.C. § 3527(c), to Shirley Ibach, Defense Accounting Officer, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), El Toro, California, from liability for four improper payments totalling $13,204. For the reasons stated below, we grant relief. We also grant relief to the cashier, LCpl. Miguel Muniz, who actually made the improper payments. The improper payments occurred on February 19, 1993, as a result of a fraudulent scheme by Pvt. James Burks representing himself as a Sgt. Thomas Campbell. The improper payments were made after Pvt. Burks presented four sets of travel orders, for $3,301 each, to the cashier in the finance office at MCAS El Toro, and explained that he and three other Marine sergeants were temporarily in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas participating in training activities. Pvt. Burks stated that he was the only one of the four allowed to leave the training sessions and that he was responsible for retrieving all four travel advances. The cashier advised Pvt. Burks that the checks would not be ready until later in the day and that he would need to have a written authorization from the other sergeants if he planned to pick up their advances. That afternoon, Pvt. Burks returned and produced a handwritten letter bearing the purported signatures of the other three marines granting him the authority to retrieve their checks. After presenting the letter, a forged armed forces identification card and Sgt. Campbell's social security number to the cashier, Pvt. Burks was allowed to sign for the four checks. The cashier examined the 1136118

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