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B-288163 1 (2002-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO ,Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 B-288163 June 4, 2002 Leonidas Ralph Mecham Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts One Columbus Circle, N.E. Washington, D.C. 20544 Subject: Relief from Liability for Erroneous Payment from United States Bankruptcy Court's Registry Fund Dear Mr. Mecham: This responds to your request that we grant relief from liability for an improper payment of $1,369.83 from the registry funds of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Alaska. Your request sets forth your findings that the erroneous payment was not the result of negligence and that the court diligently attempted to recover the money. You also indicate that in the event relief from liability is granted you intend to restore the funds to the court's registry fund account from appropriated funds for the operation of the Judiciary. For the reasons stated below, we grant relief to both the clerk of the court, Wayne W. Wolfe, and the chief deputy clerk of the court, Jamilia A. George, and we concur in your proposed restoration from available appropriations. Background In 1986, the Bankruptcy Court had before it a case involving Pingo Corporation. In November 1986, Harvey J. Bell wrote to the court on two occasions asserting that he was owed back wages from Pingo and demanding payment in the amount of $1,906.50. By letter of November 30, 1986, the clerk of the bankruptcy court wrote to Harvey J. Bell stating that at that stage of the bankruptcy the court could not require payment of the wages allegedly owed him. Harvey J. Bell's claim for wages was placed in the case file, but the court took no further action on it at that time. The unclaimed funds relating to Pingo were deposited in an external registry fund account in 1992. The unclaimed funds report filed by the trustee, which included a list of creditors and the amount of each creditor's entitlement, was kept with the clerk's financial records, separate from the case file containing the original claims. The unclaimed funds report included the name Harvey Bell, with no middle initial, on

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