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B-274364 1 (1997-04-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-274364 B-276306 April 23, 1997 Mr. David L. Gagermeier Assistant General Counsel Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis Center Indianapolis, IN 46249 Dear Mr. Gagermeier: This responds to your letters of January 22, 1997 and August 19, 1996, requesting relief of Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) H.G. Thigpen, Defense Accounting Officer, Fort Stewart, Georgia, from personal liability for improper payments in the amount of $6,944.33 and Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) M.C. Mattingly, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, from personal liability for improper payments in the amount of $6,754. For the reasons stated below, we grant both of your requests for relief. In addition, we also relieve LTCs Thigpen's and Mattingly's subordinates who made the improper payments in question. BACKGROUND Your submissions indicate that the improper payments resulted from a wide-ranging fraud scheme perpetrated by Sergeant First Class Robert J. Lamb. Mr. Lamb received about $70,000 through 25 false claims to Army, Air Force and Navy accounting and travel offices for Do-It-Yourself (DITY) moves of personal property that he never in fact made. The DITY program is a military program 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 208423

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