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www.nydailynews.com
Two Census Bureau managers fired for creating at least 10,000 bogus questionnaires to meet deadlines
BY Samuel Goldsmith and Jake Pearson In New York and Michael Mcauliff In Washington
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, June 26th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Two Census Bureau managers from a Brooklyn field office were fired after their bosses found they faked household surveys to meet deadlines, the Daily News learned.
Instead of pounding the pavement and knocking on doors, the corner-cutting people-counters mined the phone book and Internet to make up answers to questionnaires, regional director Tony Farthing said.
The managers - turned in by whistleblower employees - were caught last week. Now, at least 10,000 surveys need to be done or redone, officials said.
Census officials in Washington only admitted to a string of incomplete forms and poor tracking in disclosing the firings Friday afternoon. But Farthing corroborated worker accounts to the Daily News that managers Alvin Aviles and Sonya Merritt began dummying up responses in the final crush to finish the surveys, which field workers are supposed to compile from in-person household visits.
"Basically, people were being asked to forge [questionnaires]," said one worker in the North East Brooklyn office, which covers 95,000 households.
"We went in and did a full investigation," Farthing said. "We found out two managers on the weekend of the 12th of June cheated by using phone books or Internet sources."
A worker told the Daily News that when field interviewers returned to the office with blank forms, Aviles also enlisted some of them in the scheme. "He had people fill them in," the worker said.
Aviles and Merritt could not immediately be reached for comment.
Farthing said he believes the branch's earlier work is kosher, but the pair decided to break the rules at crunch time when they were looking at a huge stack of unfinished surveys, and their bosses were pushing for results, even if it meant more night work.
"We were telling them to go back on all non-interviews and hit this stuff hard. None of this 9-to-5 stuff, go when they know someone will be home," Farthing said. It was then, Farthing said, that the managers "came up with the bright idea, or not-so-bright idea" - to save time.
The Census bureau was not able to estimate how much it will cost to redo all the work, but a spokesman said it was not an issue because the bureau was under budget on the massive project. Farthing said the honest workers left in the office are redoing 5,000 or so interviews that may be tainted.
"We're not happy about what happened," he said, noting that Aviles and Merritt were turned in by the very people they trained.
mmcauliff@nydailynews.com
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Your Government, the same one you idiots wants to handle your health care, at work. ::) ::)
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/06/26/2010-06-26_2_census_bigs_axed_for_fakin_it.html#ixzz0s5gHcqNG
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Your Government, the same one you idiots wants to handle your health care, at work. ::) ::)
No 333, ...that would be YOUR government. This happened in NY, not by two elected government officials, but by a couple of jackass employees. You'll find jackass employees everywhere, including the private sector.
Healthcare wll be handled by the federal government. Knowing that should provoke a huge sigh of relief in you. ;)
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No 333, ...that would be YOUR government. This happened in NY, not by two elected government officials, but by a couple of jackass employees. You'll find jackass employees everywhere, including the private sector.
Healthcare wll be fucked up by the federal government. Knowing that should provoke a huge pang of fear and anger in you. ;)
Uh...no. This is the country's problem. They are federal employees paid for by tax dollars from citizens across this great nation and their duty station just happens to be in NY. And right now, we don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes. I hope that it is just an isolated incident.
Oh, and I fixed your second sentence to make sense.
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Oh, and I fixed your second sentence to make sense.
Actually, what you altered was the 2nd paragraph.
English! Do you speak it? ;)
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English! Do you speak it? ;)
Temporarily. Once Barry grants all the illegals amnesty, we'll all be speaking Spanish.
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Temporarily. Once Barry grants all the illegals amnesty, we'll all be speaking Spanish.
Fabulous! Soon you'll be among the millions the world over able to appreciate the beauty of the language.
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Temporarily. Once Barry grants all the illegals amnesty, we'll all be speaking Spanish.
No me, I'll go down like the Alamo before that happens.