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B-225187 1 (1987-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmsp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: uThe Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Fraudulent Claim File: B-225187 Date: June 9, 198f DIGEST A fraudulent claim for lodging taints the entire claim for per diem on days for which fraudulent information is submitted, and per diem payments will not be made for those days. Where fraud is suspected, the claim is of doubtful validity and the claimant is left to his remedy in the courts. DECISION A claimant seeks reconsideration of our Claims Group settlement issued in 1979, denying his claim for per diem based on an administrative report of investigation provided by the Department of the Air Force finding that he was erroneously overpaid $906.43 for overstated lodging expenses in connection with each day of two consecutive temporary duty trips to Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, from May 16 through November 26, 1975, for which the claimant submitted two vouchers totalling $4,819.75. Based on the agency's reasonable suspicion of fraud, our Claims Group denied payment leaving the individual to his remedy in the courts. By letter dated September 3, 1986, the claimant has resubmitted his claim stating in essence that although he is willing to forfeit the overstated lodging expenses of $906.03 from the original per diem claim of $4,819.75, the resulting difference of $3,913.32 is, in his estimation, an undisputed figure which he claims the government owes to him. The affirmation of our Claims Group's 1979 settlement of this claim is based on the consistent position of this Office in regard to claims evidencing fraud and therefore of doubtful validity. The resolution of the claimant's request for reconsideration is governed by the principles established by our previous decisions at 57 Comp. Gen. 664 (1978) and 59 Comp. Gen. 99 (1979). In the former decision we held that where there has been a fraudulent claim for lodging, the final settlement voucher should contain no claim for subsistence expenses for the days covered by the fraudulent claim. For the purposes of this rule,

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