Senators Accuse ATF of Illegally Inflating Salaries
The embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is facing yet another torrent of controversy. Two senators charge that the agency illegally cooked the books to inflate salaries.
Fox News Digital reported that Iowa Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, who is also the Judiciary Chairman, and Joni Ernst sent a letter outlining their allegations to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and ATF Acting Director Daniel Driscoll.
The lawmakers said, “As a result of ATF’s illegal conduct, ATF staff assigned to these positions performed administrative work but unlawfully received enhanced law enforcement pay and benefits to which they were not entitled, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.”
Grassley and Ernst referenced two internal investigations that revealed the misconduct.
Whistleblower Retaliation and Lack of Accountability
Even worse, the letter cites allegations that two supervisory agents, Lisa Boykin and Ralph Bittelari, continued carrying out the scheme while retaliating against whistleblowers. And instead of being made to face the music, the two were promoted.
The senators wrote that the internal report provided “clear evidence that corrective action must be taken for, at minimum, Ms. Boykin’s and Mr. Bittelari’s gross misconduct.”
They added that the ATF and DOJ “failed to hold Boykin or Bittelari accountable for their gross misconduct.”
And it’s not like the Executive Branch did not have prior warning that the ATF committed questionable acts.
Two years ago, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel informed the White House that agents and investigators received over $20 million in illegal payments due to intentional misclassification.
The office told the President and Congress that high-level ATF positions were fraught with “substantial waste, mismanagement, and unlawful employment practices.”
Over 100 ATF employees were found to be systematically overpaid. Critics have long charged that the agency operated in a rogue manner that did not uphold the principles of the Second Amendment.
More ATF housecleaning is a certainty.
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