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The wrong way home
Washington Monthly, Nov, 2004 by Charles Peters
One reason the District is lagging can be found in a recent report about the local education office by D.C. auditor Deborah K. Nichols, who found that "certain employees are able to manipulate the system to obtain reimbursement for questionable travel ... of a personal or self-serving nature rather than the performance of official business." One trip questioned was a two-night stay by five employees in Richmond where the sole work done was attending a meeting that concluded at 1 p.m.
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on the first day. Richmond is 90 miles from Washington. One receipt submitted for the trip was from a gas station in North Carolina--a state which, for those who slept through geography class, is definitely not located between Washington and Richmond. But at least in this case, an itemized expense report was made. Such reports, according to Jim McElhatton of The Washington Times, "were not submitted for 89% of the trips taken by [education] officials."
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