More details about individual cases in Hamilton’s fraud and waste report have come out thanks to today’s meeting agenda, including that one of the nine people the city fired for fraud was living in a city-owned unit “without the knowledge or authorization of management.”
Hamilton released its annual fraud report last week, but specific cases remained under wraps until Auditor General Charles Brown’s presentation on Nov. 20. In total the report found $110,000 in fraud and $22,000 waste. Brown cited several examples in this more fulsome report including the worker living in the city-owned unit.
Brown further found that the worker had renovated the apartment “for their personal use and benefit.” While the exact extent of repairs was not shared, Brown found they had cost the city more than $9,900.
Additionally, “another employee accountable for oversight of the unit in question was aware of the personal usage by the other employee and they did not report it to management,” Brown shared. Both of these employees have since been fired.
The AG also recommended numerous changes such as “regular, unannounced checks on City assets, better tracking and inventory management, adequate segregation of duties, review of relevant job duties for the impacted role to review relevant security technology, and to improve cash-handling processes” to prevent this sort of thing from happening again in future.
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