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B-238614 1 (1990-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadntu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OEComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: James R. Atchison File: B-238614 Date: July 26, 1990 DECISION Mr. James R. Atchison, through counsel, has appealed our Claims Group Settlement, Z-2866296, April 6, 1989. That settlement sustained his employing agency's finding of travel voucher fraud and upheld its action to recoup reim- bursements made to him for certain lodging expenses. Mr. Atchison, a discharged employee of the Air Force, per- formed temporary duty travel in 1980 and 1981 and claimed the cost of lodging on various travel vouchers. Following reimbursement, an Air Force investigation developed that a number of lodging receipts submitted by him to support those voucher payments were of questionable validity. It was eventually established that, although the receipts purported to show that he had made payment, Mr. Atchison actually had not paid for that lodging. Mr. Atchison did not make pay- ment for those lodging costs until well after the fact of nonpayment was established. Eventually, Mr. Atchison was discharged from federal employment. In 1987 the Air Force recovered the amounts it had previously paid to him in 1980 and 1981. In his appeal, Mr. Atchison's counsel argues that our settlement was based on incomplete records and hearsay evidence. He contends that there is no direct evidence showing that Mr. Atchison accepted free lodging at the Park Fairfax Lodge (PFL) or falsified lodging receipts. He also argues that the vouchers signed by Mr. Atchison only certi- fied that he had incurred a particular obligation at the time the voucher was submitted which would be paid later, likening it to a credit card transaction. Further, since Mr. Atchison subsequently made payment, all conditions supporting reimbursement were satisfied; hence, counsel contends there was no fraud. Oic La / I- L II

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