Clerk Sentenced For Misfiling Claims

[daklander]

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former clerk at a federal records warehouse in St. Louis has pleaded guilty to misfiling hundreds of military records.

More ammunition for the removal of incentives and bonuses for VA employees.
The sentence was not stiff enough

[daklander]

ST. LOUIS (AP) - A former clerk at a federal records warehouse in St. Louis has pleaded guilty to misfiling hundreds of military records.

More ammunition for the removal of incentives and bonuses for VA employees.

The sentence was not stiff enough

More information comes to light.

At least 1800 records were lost, destroyed, thrown away or mis-filed.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY • Paid for speed in handling documents pulled from 100 million federal employee records, two workers at the National Personnel Records Center here have admitted dumping, destroying or misfiling at least 1,800 of them, court records show.

Here's the lie:

His lawyer, Eric Banks, said Thursday, “Stanley is very contrite. I have known him for over 10 years. He’s my pastor’s son. I’ve never seen anybody more sorrowful. He just made a terrible error in judgment.”

Banks stressed that “nobody has been denied or lost any benefits as a result of any of this.”

Uh, how can there not be benefit problems when some of the records were destroyed or thrown away? Hmm? Riddle me that Maynard.

[71M10]

Yes the criminal behavior is aggregious, but the really outrageous nugget of information in this story is they are completely fine with a normal 3% error rate. So for every hundred items filled three will vanish. I guess my exit physical and lab results were one of those 3% that were lost (although I think they disappeared just about the time someone at Beaumont AMC, realized I had a cardiac condition, and was ETSing).

[Vync]

"Go home early on Friday syndrome"

I saw a lot of this garbage happen when I was on active duty in the Army. The dude probably wanted to go home early, so he just jammed a bunch of files in the back of the nearest filing cabinet drawer and hauled ass out of there. This type of stupidity and laziness caused everyone in my department to suffer by spending entire weekends going through every file cabinet and drawer to straighten things out.

I have a funny feeling that the only reason this dude got caught was because he pissed someone off and they turned him in.