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B-266001 1 (1996-05-01)

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GAO            United States
               General Accounting Office
               Washington, D.C. 20548

               Office of the General Counsel




               B-266001


               May 1, 1996


               Mr. John Nabil
               Director, Denver Center
               Defense Finance and Accounting Service
               6760 E. Irvington Place
               Denver, CO 80279

               Dear Mr. Nabil:

               This responds to your request that this Office grant relief from pecuniary liability
               under 31 U.S.C. § 3527(c) to Maj. Michael Mason, Defense Accounting Officer,
               Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, for an improper payment that resulted from
               a fraud perpetrated on the Air Force on November 25, 1992, by someone purporting
               to be Darrell J. Joslyn. As explained below, we grant relief to Major Mason.

               BACKGROUND

               When this loss occurred, Major Mason commanded the Finance and Accounting
               Office of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He was also its disbursing officer. Among
               other things, Major Mason and his staff were responsible for making disbursements
               on all travel vouchers approved for payment by the base's Traffic Management
               Office (TMO). On December 15, 1992, Major Mason's staff received and paid a
               voucher submitted by TMO on behalf of its contractor, the Schedule Airline Ticket
               Office (SATO), for the cost of travel arrangements they made for someone
               identified as Darrell J. Joslyn.1 According to the voucher, Joslyn was a member of
               the Army Reserve who was ordered to duty by the Tucson Army Reserve Center
               (TUCARC).

               Major Mason's staff detected nothing unusual or otherwise amiss in the voucher for
               Joslyn and paid SATO for it. After paying it, Major Mason's staff forwarded SATO's
               bill to the Army Finance and Accounting Center in Indianapolis for reimbursement



               'In some parts of the Air Force record, this individual is alternatively identified as
               Darryl Joslyn.


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