I doubt we’ll ever rally know how much of this corruption and grift happened under the Trump administration but I’m sure it was everywhere:
Two former Environmental Protection Agency officials intentionally kept two staffers on the payroll and allowed them to continue receiving their salaries even after they were terminated, according to a report from the agency’s independent watchdog. The report also found that the former officials, both appointed by former president Donald Trump, committed other fraudulent payroll-related activities — including one giving the other an improper pay increase — that cost the EPA more than $130,000.
The EPA’s Office of Inspector General investigated former EPA chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz and concluded in March that they had “made and used official time sheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to facilitate continued payments to two employees after they had left the agency, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Washington Post and first reported by Politico.
As it turns out, the two employees to whom they gave unauthorized pay were terminated for abiding by the rules and the Trump appointees felt sorry for them and wanted to give them some “severance” which is not allowed in these circumstances. Everybody did what they wanted and if they had to do something they didn’t want to do they just found work-arounds. The rules are for the rubes.