Goverment Report: EPA Employees Viewing Porn at Work, Raking in Cash While Not Working

By Published on May 28, 2016

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee who watched porn up to four hours a day at work was caught red-handed by a child visiting the office on “Bring Your Daughters And Sons To Work Day.”

The EPA placed the porn-watching EPA employee on notice for proposed removal in March, 2015, “as a result of having been witnessed viewing pornographic material on an EPA computer during work hours by a minor who was in the building” for the EPA event, the IG found. Federal investigators found the employee spent between one and four hours a day viewing and downloading porn on an EPA computer equipment during core work hours. The IG didn’t say whether the EPA successfully fired the employee.

Another EPA employee who stayed home and did not work for six years collected $600,000 in salary and benefits, and an EPA contractor watched porn for 18 years before anyone did anything about it, according to the EPA Office of Inspector General’s (IG) latest employee misconduct report.

The EPA supervisor who allowed an employee to stay home and do no work for six years told investigators that was the easiest way to handle the situation. “The supervisor stated that it was easier to allow this arrangement than go through the medical retirement process for the employee and deal with the employee’s union,” the IG said. The EPA fired the supervisor in October, 2014, but the employee retired before the EPA could level any administrative action.

It took federal investigators 18 years to discover one unnamed EPA contracting employee had watched porn for one to two hours a day on EPA equipment for nearly two decades. The EPA contractor had to repay the EPA $22,088.

Another EPA employee who was working at the EPA and a nonprofit organization simultaneously for six years failed to report the outside income, the IG found. But that employee retired in February, 2016, before the EPA reprimanded the employee.

In another case, an EPA contractor assaulted an EPA coworker at a metro station in the Washington, D.C., area. The Fairfax County General District Court in Virginia convicted the contractor of misdemeanor assault and battery charges, and told the contractor to stay away from criminal activity for one year.

“EPA management requested that the contractor receive ongoing counseling from his employer,” the IG report said.

 

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