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B-272615 1 (1997-05-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxcw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-272615 May 19, 1997 Mr. David J. Bechtol, Cdr, SC, USN Director for Field Support Defense Finance and Accounting Service U.S. Department of the Defense Cleveland Center 1240 E. 9th Street Cleveland, OH 44199-2055 Dear Mr. Bechtol: This responds to your letter of June 26, 1996, requesting relief from liability, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. § 3527(c), for Mr. G. J. Murphy, the civilian disbursing officer for the Personnel Support Activity, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida for the loss of $8,673.72 arising from three advance payments made by unidentified cashiers working under Mr. Murphy's direction. These payments were received by Robert J. Lamb during April, May, and August, 1994, as part of a larger criminal scheme to fraudulently obtain transportation allowances (referred to as Do-It-Yourself Moves, or DITY) while he was absent without leave from the Florida National Guard. As explained below, we grant relief to Mr. Murphy. However, with respect to the cashiers who made these payments, we have received no requests for relief and they remain liable. BACKGROUND The DITY program was designed to save the government money and provide a quick, informal way to facilitate inexpensive moves of military personnel on short notice. Under the DITY program, a member can present a voucher for advance payment of the anticipated costs of moving to another post pursuant to military travel orders. The member need not go to his or her own command or even his or her own branch of the military to obtain such payments. Instead, through a procedure known as cross disbursing, any command may make DITY advance payments to members based solely on the presentation of appropriate paperwork 244326

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