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| Department of Corrections has clamped down on fraud |
| By .syracuse.com |
| Published: 07/12/2013 |
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After allowing the food services director in Rome [NY] to forge time sheets and travel logs for 17 years, the Department of Corrections food services distribution center has cleaned up its act, a state Comptroller's report found. The corrections department has given ethics training to employees, taken away the director's free car and housing, and put in place tighter controls on travel, said the audit released today. The comptroller found in 2010 that Howard Dean, of Cayuga County, had skipped work every Friday for 17 years, and was assigned a headquarters of Albany instead of Rome that allowed him to collect unwarranted travel benefits. Shortly after that audit, Dean was charged with grand larceny. Last December, he was given five years probation and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution. Read More. |
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