What were some of the worst expense offenses you’ve seen/heard of? Just found out that a teammate got fired today due to severe expense policy violation. I can’t even imagine what could’ve been so bad

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Creating a shell “taxi” company that he billed his cab rides to, while sharing a ride home from airport with a colleague who would use their corporate card for the ride

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Deloitte had to change their expense policy after my fraternity brother spent a fortune on a client dinner including several bottles each of Dom and Cristal. He topped off the dinner with Louis XIII and kept the bottle. He quit before they could fire him.

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Somebody getting their kid a square and swiping the Corp card fir "taxi rides"

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I used to work for a corporate card issuer. Yes, a lot of stripper stories are true, but I’m not going to tell you how to pull it off.

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Not at BCG, in my previous firm in Europe: Principal would fly to his home country for “business development”. Coincidently his favourite soccer team was playing so also expensing premium seat tickets and dinner (turns out it was local friends). After cumulative 80k€ someone in finance started asking questions... and he got fired

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Partner expensing a face lift lol

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Not expense but corporate card. Years ago when I started at Accenture, the corporate card had no limit and no monthly interest. Some yahoo bought a house with his corporate card and started to slowly pay his Amex bill. Not sure how long before the person got caught. But once discovered, that’s when Accenture put limits on corporate card charge types.

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The exchanging first class tickets for cash and a lower class ticket got several NBA refs fired about 20 years ago. The IRS nailed them, not the league. How, I do not recall.

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D3, you should be fine as long as the price the guy charges you is reasonable compared to Uber and you aren't profiting from his earnings.

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Also, maybe try to get a receipt of some sort just in case?

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For the ransom I understand we paid it the second time and fired him

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Waaay too many stories of EAs scamming their bosses without their noticing for waaay too long.

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At a previous company we had a guy keep hotel rooms in multiple cities he frequented so 1) he didn’t have to pack/unpack; and 2) his girlfriend had a place to live.

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Going back to them nunchucks. No way I’m f****** with someone with nunchucks

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McK7 - you assume that the bosses of those EAs actually read their own credit card statements and manage their own finances...

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SM1, bottles on bottles plus some 'extras' I am assuming.

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So, I live in a tier 3 city where its legitimately hard to get an uber at 430am on a Monday morning. I have this guy that picks me up from home (and the airport on thursdays) for a flat fee on his square. Can I potentially get into trouble for this?

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D3... You could potentially get into an expense audit situation over this. You will be cleared bit it will be a time consuming/stressful affair. Better just drop a note to expense police and let them know that you are doing this. They will ask you a free more q and then leave you alone

Not an expense offense but when I was in industry a colleague figured out a way to go into a payment system and issue checks to herself. Post office became suspicious so many checks were going to her personal PO box and launched an investigation. FBI and Postal Inspectors showed up at corporate headquarters and took her out in handcuffs. Not sure if she is still in jail but she was sentenced to a good number of years.

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Suggest reading “House of Lies” which is about Booz Allen Hamilton in its hey day.

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@OP. Exactly. We have to fire these people because it’s immoral and wrong, but we also have to fire them because it’s just so stupid. Anyone who makes that decision is way too dumb to be on my project

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M1 is winning

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A3 why fire them? Why not tell them to pay for it out of pocket.

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I heard some dude was fired after expensing the purchase of a $30k car...

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