Good work if you can get it?

Washington Times:

FBI agents improperly received millions of dollars in overtime payments for hours spent exercising, watching movies and going to cocktail parties while serving in Iraq, a Justice Department audit concluded.

A report from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said the FBI allowed, even encouraged, agents to list all waking hours on their time sheets, a move that violated federal pay statutes, regulations and FBI policies. The 1,150 agents who worked in Iraq from 2003 to 2007 uniformly listed 16-hour workdays for each day of their three-month tours.

The inspector general also said the FBI shifted the workweek of the agents from Monday through Friday to Sunday through Thursday, meaning they improperly received additional "Sunday pay."

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I wonder if they were trying to game the system to give them hazardous duty pay?

Back when I was practicing law I kept hearing stories about lawyers who billed more than 24 hours in a day. They rationalized it by billing multiple clients for doing the same research. That never seemed right to me. I did not bill "windshield" time either, i.e. travel time nor did I bill for all the time I spent awake at night thinking about a case, which may have been some of my more productive hours.

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