Office of the Chief Information Officer Employee Guilty of Credit Card Fraud

OIG initiated an investigation after receiving allegations from an Office of Financial Management, Office of the Secretary, employee that Tracy Hamm, IT Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Planning and Integration Branch, Office of Chief Information Officer, charged personal expenses on her Government travel charge card.

 

We found that between 2012 and 2016, Hamm fraudulently charged $3,554.68 in personal charges on her charge card, such as hotels, airline tickets, rental cars, and gasoline. Because of the nature of these charges, they were centrally billed and automatically paid by the Government. Hamm confessed to having knowingly made these fraudulent charges on her assigned travel charge card.

 

We also found that Hamm had not been on official travel during that time, and neither of the supervisors that she reported to were reviewing her travel charge card statements, as was required.

 

On April 12, 2017, Hamm pleaded guilty to misdemeanor credit card fraud in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She was ordered to pay $3,554.68 in restitution and received 1 year of probation.