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B-187139 1 (1980-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjuk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 -. UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFF1CE OF GENERAL COUNSEL. B- 187139 Mrs. Lillian B. Smith 779 Concourse Village Apt. 10M Bronx, N.Y. 10451 Dear Mrs. Smith: This responds to your request for reconsideration of our decision B-187139, October 25, 1978, in which we refused to relieve you of lia- bility for a shortage of $1500 in public funds lost when you were serv- ing as Imprest Fund cashier of the New York Regional Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). For the reason discussed below, we ell must affirm our original decision. Essentially, you base your request for reconsideration on the following facts additional to those cited by the Drug Enforcement Administration in its original submission: (1) other personnel in the DEA office could remove receipts from your desk; (2) receipts were misplaced; and (3) if agents had to obtain funds for investigative purposes after hours, other persons could remove the funds from the safe. Accordingly, you claim your case is similar to B-180022, March 14, 1974, in which we granted relief upon findings that the Imprest Fund cashier did not have exclusive control over cash and cash related items, that anyone who wanted a receipt merely went to her desk and removed them, and that if agents needed funds after working hours, someone other than the Imprest Fund cashier involved would remove the funds from the safe. Although we would be inclined to grant relief if the facts in your case were similar to those described in the case above, we carnot do so because DEA does not corroborate your assertions. To the con- trary, DEA now states that you were provicd w:ith a proper 4afe -or storage of cash and receipts for cash and that other than a copy Or

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