OIG conducted an investigation into allegations that a former Department contractor had manipulated the Travel Manager system to receive travel reimbursement payments in excess of $54,000. Subsequent investigation determined that the contract employee had created a travel profile for a nonexistent employee and had received travel advances in the amount of $57,496 to which she was not entitled. When interviewed, the former contract employee confessed to the embezzlement. The former contract employee pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging her with theft of public money and on June 26, 2007, she was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay restitution to the Department in the amount of $57,496.
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