Post by disgustipated on Mar 2, 2007 17:13:23 GMT -5
From syracuse.com
Oswego worker in trouble over calls to adult chat line
An Oswego city water department employee is facing "severe consequences" for using a city telephone to spend hours on an out-of-state phone chat line, according to a city councilor who detected the misuse.
Richard L. Atkins, who represents the city's 7th Ward, said that he was reviewing city bills for January when he noticed 800 minutes of charges on one phone in the water department. He found the same phone had 400 minutes of long distance charges in February.
Atkins checked and found that the calls were to two numbers in Nevada and Iowa. Curious, he called them and found they were adult chat lines.
Further checking records, Atkins found calls to the two numbers went back to last summer and totaled some 3,000 minutes. One call, he said, lasted five hours.
He alerted Mayor Randy Bateman, who looked into the matter, Atkins said.
"Then the ball started rolling further," he said. The employee, who Atkins didn't know and wouldn't name, is facing "severe consequences" for the calls.
"This is not a blackeye for the city," Atkins said. Instead, the discovery of the problem shows that Oswego is serious about keeping an eye on finances and operations.
"We are still cleaning up the philosophy of the previous administration that anything goes," he said.
It was former Mayor John Gosek who gained infamy for using a city cell phone to set up what he thought would be a rendezvous with two 15-year-old girls at a Salina motel. It turned out to be federal investigators.
Gosek is serving three years at a federal prison in North Carolina after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from underage girls.
Oswego worker in trouble over calls to adult chat line
An Oswego city water department employee is facing "severe consequences" for using a city telephone to spend hours on an out-of-state phone chat line, according to a city councilor who detected the misuse.
Richard L. Atkins, who represents the city's 7th Ward, said that he was reviewing city bills for January when he noticed 800 minutes of charges on one phone in the water department. He found the same phone had 400 minutes of long distance charges in February.
Atkins checked and found that the calls were to two numbers in Nevada and Iowa. Curious, he called them and found they were adult chat lines.
Further checking records, Atkins found calls to the two numbers went back to last summer and totaled some 3,000 minutes. One call, he said, lasted five hours.
He alerted Mayor Randy Bateman, who looked into the matter, Atkins said.
"Then the ball started rolling further," he said. The employee, who Atkins didn't know and wouldn't name, is facing "severe consequences" for the calls.
"This is not a blackeye for the city," Atkins said. Instead, the discovery of the problem shows that Oswego is serious about keeping an eye on finances and operations.
"We are still cleaning up the philosophy of the previous administration that anything goes," he said.
It was former Mayor John Gosek who gained infamy for using a city cell phone to set up what he thought would be a rendezvous with two 15-year-old girls at a Salina motel. It turned out to be federal investigators.
Gosek is serving three years at a federal prison in North Carolina after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from underage girls.