{"id":442037,"date":"2021-04-22T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=442037"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:51:10","slug":"man-received-a-paycheck-for-15-years-despite-never-showing-up-for-work-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-received-a-paycheck-for-15-years-despite-never-showing-up-for-work-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Received A Paycheck For 15 Years Despite Never Showing Up For Work, Authorities Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-received-a-paycheck-for-15-years-despite-never-showing-up-for-work-authorities-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=442037&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3259.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A man who worked as a safety officer at a hospital in Italy has been charged for multiple crimes stemming from his collecting $648,000 in salary over 15 years despite allegedly never going to work.<\/p>\n<p>Italian news agency Ansa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/general_news\/2021\/04\/21\/no-show-worker-got-pay-for-over-15-years_a99a4a38-9525-4574-8d14-1751bee25e46.html\">reported<\/a> that Salvatore Scumace, 66, is under investigation \u201cfor fraud, extortion and abuse of office\u201d after authorities discovered he had been paid for 15 years without ever going to work. The outlet called him a \u201cserial absenteeist,\u201d adding that six of Scumace\u2019s superiors are also under investigation for allegedly aiding in his deception by not taking action against him. So far, an investigation has found that Scumace was hired in 2005 and never showed up for work.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/21\/italian-king-of-absentees-allegedly-skipped-work-for-15-years\">reported<\/a> that \u201cking of absentees\u201d Scumace never went to his job at Pugliese Ciaccio hospital. An investigation, codenamed Part Time, involved police gathering attendance and salary records while also speaking to witnesses. The investigation revealed that Scumace allegedly threatened the hospital director in 2005 to keep her from \u201cfrom filing a disciplinary report over his absenteeism,\u201d the Guardian reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe director then retired and the man\u2019s absenteeism continued unabated because his attendance was never checked by the director\u2019s successor or the human resources department, police said,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reported that this is not the first time the Italian government had uncovered information revealing rampant absenteeism in the public sector. From the outlet:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17.564102564103\">\n<p><em>In 2016 the government tightened a law against the workshy after several high-profile police investigations revealed just how rampant absenteeism was across the public sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/22\/town-hall-staff-sanremo-italy-absenteeism-inquiry\">one investigation<\/a>, police used secret surveillance cameras to ensnare 35 workers at Sanremo\u2019s town hall who had been cheating the time management system for at least two years. The wives of two of the employees were caught using their husband\u2019s staff cards to clock on for them, while other staff members clocked on before going canoeing, shopping or out with friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In another case, a traffic police officer who lived in the same building he worked in was filmed clocking on in his underwear before going back to bed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Italy is not the only country with this problem, either. In 2010, the Virginian-Pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/government\/local\/article_6525d212-fe0b-5afe-9369-f873d747275e.html\">reported<\/a> that a Community Services Board employee in Norfolk, Virginia collected a salary with benefits for 12 years despite never going to work. The employee was fired and an investigation was opened, though the employee\u2019s name was never revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In Spain, a building supervisor failed to show up to work for six years while still collecting a $41,500 salary from the local government, HuffPost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/man-skipped-work-for-6-years_n_56c1d32ae4b0b40245c72512\">reported<\/a>. The man\u2019s deception was uncovered after he received an <em>award<\/em> for 20 years of loyal service. From HuffPost:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28.559718969555\">\n<p><em>Joaqu\u00edn Garc\u00eda, 69, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-35557725\">was recently fined <\/a>$30,000 for the extended paid vacation from a water treatment plant in C\u00e1diz \u2014 the maximum penalty government officials could deliver, the BBC reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to deputy mayor Jorge Blas, it wasn\u2019t until Garcia was due to be recognized for his hard work in 2010 that authorities realized his office was sitting vacant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI wondered whether he was still working there, had he retired, had he died? But the payroll showed he was still receiving a salary,\u201d Blas told Spanish newspaper El Mundo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.es\/20160212\/spanish-civil-servant-takes-6-years-off-work-no-one-notices\">according to The Local.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI called him up and asked him, \u2018What did you do yesterday? The month before, the month before that?\u2019 He didn\u2019t know what to say,\u201d Blas said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Garcia\u2019s water company coworkers thought the plant was being overseen by local authorities because they hadn\u2019t seen Garcia in so long.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who worked as a safety officer at a hospital in Italy has been charged for multiple crimes stemming from his collecting $648,000 in salary over 15 years despite &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276461,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3259.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Received A Paycheck For 15 Years Despite Never Showing Up For Work, Authorities Say","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3259.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Man Received A Paycheck For 15 Years Despite Never Showing Up For Work, Authorities Say","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}