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grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue May 16 23:43:30 PDT 2023


Report Reveals ATF Misappropriated $20 Million To Pay Bureaucrat Salaries

https://twitter.com/GunOwners
https://www.gunowners.org/

by Gun Owners of America

A recent report from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel revealed that
the ATF unlawfully paid agents more than $20 million in wrongful
benefits using taxpayer funds.

According to that report, ATF intentionally misclassified jobs as law
enforcement positions and paid those employees benefits to which they
were not entitled.

The sum of the findings totaled about 20 million dollars over five
years to 108 ATF employees. That's around 37 thousand dollars a year
in salary and retirement benefits per employee.

As detailed by the OSC's report, these actions were ATF leadership's
standard operating procedure for many years.

A quote from the report surmised that the actual cost could be much
higher given that the unlawful job classifications had been common
practice at ATF far longer than the five-year timeframe reviewed by
investigators.

It's interesting that this report was released about a week after the
House Judiciary Committee hearing that ATF Director Steve Dettelbach
testified at.

    🚨BREAKING🚨@ATFHQ systemically committed financial crimes & used
taxpayer dollars to pad the salaries of AT LEAST 108 bureaucrats.

    Meanwhile, @JoeBiden wants to INCREASE the agency's funding to
over $1.9 BILLION.#DefundTheATF pic.twitter.com/K5IUmZkWyU
    — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 3, 2023

Still, Congress cannot turn a blind eye to ATF's corruption and this
rogue agency must be held accountable.

Additionally, the OSC stated in their press release that they have
notified President Biden and Congress of their findings. Yet, the
Biden Administration has done nothing to withdraw its proposed budget
for fiscal year 2024. Instead, The Biden Administration would rather
reward ATF for its financial crimes with a 13.6% increase over the
2023 budget—raising the operating budget to nearly $2 billion.

    DEFUND 👏 THE 👏 ATF 👏 https://t.co/5JghPBa03J
    — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 2, 2023

Meanwhile, law-abiding gun owners applying for their tax stamps
continue to suffer extremely long paperwork delays on registration
forms which should not even exist in the first place.

When it comes to ATF finances, OPM's report states that:

    "ATF leadership had acted outside of the merit system principles
and demonstrated disregard for the rule of law and regulations."

The American people deserve transparency from these unelected agency
bureaucrats at ATF.

Another telling quote as to the extent of the issue can be found on
page 4 of the report. It reads:

    "The whistleblowers expressed their views that the report did not
adequately capture the extent of ATF's illegal practice of the full
impact of the harm."

This revelation only serves to highlight the double standards that
exist between the treatment of gun dealers and the ATF itself. The
fact is that the very agency that puts gun dealers out of business for
a single infraction is itself bilking the taxpayers for millions of
dollars illegally.

We can only hope that more brave whistleblowers continue to bring
these issues to the public's attention, and, hopefully, the attention
of Congress as well.

We'll hold the line for you in Washington. We are No Compromise. Join
the Fight Now.


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