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Airport managers grounded for bagging cash
Posted by Fired Fred on August 1, 2007 5:22 PM
A couple of Fort Lauderdale airport managers received a painful lesson about working for the government. Only the government is allowed to make a profit. You can't just give them ten percent off the top like they were some organized crime boss expecting the vig on side deals.
When a luggage handling company operating at FLL received an audit, the unsmiling paper pushers found two managers violated rule number one about working for The Man...
An audit of Bags to Go and its financial records revealed payments last year of $12,000 to Bryan Malinowski, a business manager for the airport since 2001, and $1,000 to Doris Enriquez, a business manager since 2003.I'm not exactly a genius business mind, so maybe one of you readers can help me with this. If both of these deals were for personal stuff, a loan and a purchase, why are they on the books of the business where auditors can find them and go OMG WTF?
Malinowski, who oversaw Bags to Go's contract, told investigators that the $12,000 was repayment of a personal loan he made to company president Keith Wiater, to help pay family medical bills. Enriquez said the $1,000 she received was for furniture she sold to a Bags to Go employee.