Navy, Marine Corps To Spot-Check Travel Card Charges

By Thomas Duffy / May 15, 2002 at 5:00 AM
The Navy and Marine Corps are running spot checks on the use of government travel charge cards that have been widely abused throughout the Defense Department, resulting in $62 million in charges written off as bad debt. The travel cards are given to government employees and billed to the cardholder for later government reimbursement. The abuses mostly center on cardholders defaulting on their debts and then pocketing the money they get through government reimbursements. According to a May 13 administrative...

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