Page 22 of the DOJ complaint summarizes alleged fraudulent activity by a Hanford contractor managers in failing to assign work, yet charging for full hours or work days.
Page 22 of the DOJ complaint summarizes alleged fraudulent activity by a Hanford contractor managers in failing to assign work, yet charging for full hours or work days.
Page 22 of the DOJ complaint summarizes alleged fraudulent activity by a Hanford contractor managers in failing to assign work, yet charging for full hours or work days.
Page 22 of the DOJ complaint summarizes alleged fraudulent activity by a Hanford contractor managers in failing to assign work, yet charging for full hours or work days.
57. Contrary to the HMIS written procedures, however, between August
17, 2020, and the present, HMIS and its employees, supervisors, and managers
regularly engaged in a systemic fraudulent timecard scheme designed to fleece the
DOE for their own benefit,
58. Between August 17, 2020, and the present, due to HMIS’s failure to
appropriately plan and schedule fire protection work for its hourly employees to do,
it was customary, accepted, and daily practice for HMIS hourly employees in the
Fire Systems Maintenarce unit to experience significant idle time, during which
they had no work to perform, and to nonetheless falsely record their full shifts to
active change codes on tier timecards, falsely and fraudulently indicating that these
hourly employees had performed work that they had not performed, in order to seek
‘and obtain reimbursement from DOE for the idle hours. These timecards,
containing false statements and representations, were approved by supervisory
HMIS employees who were or should have been aware that the timecards did not
accurately reflect the work performed because of the extensive and unreasonable
amount of idle time experienced by hourly workers on a daily or near daily basis
59. During this timeftame, HMIS eraft personnel, including the pipefitters
and electricians responsible for fire systems maintenance at facilities across the
entire Hanford Site, frecuently experienced significant ide time, where they had no
work to perform. Severe! factors within the control of IMIS contributed to this idle
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