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Four years after the city of Albuquerque paid a scammer hundreds of thousands of dollars in a vendor fraud scheme, it nearly fell prey to a similar ploy due in part to city employees “neglect and complacency,” according to a new investigation.
In fact, a swindler was set to get $1.9 million from the city until a bank flagged the transaction, according to a recently released investigation by the city s Office of Inspector General.
“It was determined that staffs (sic) neglect of duties, complacency and the deliberate deletion of records all played a part in the fraudster nearly succeeding in its attempt to defraud the City,” the OIG report says. “Two of the three staff involved in processing the paperwork relating to this transfer demonstrated a dereliction of their duties.”
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