Ohio Department of Administrative Services

Title from PDF p. [i] (viewed on June 30, 2009).; "Date of Report: June 16, 2009."; Harvested from the web on 6/30/09On February 3, 2009, the Office of Inspector General ("OIG") received a telephone complaint from Janet Jurkuta, a Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act ("COBRA") participant, stating that she had not received her canceled checks for her premium payments for the months of August and September 2008. She alleged that the Department of Administrative Services ("DAS") acknowledged receiving the checks and informed her that they were behind in processing COBRA payments. This complaint was forwarded to DAS for investigation on February 26, 2009. Additionally, an anonymous letter was received on March 10, 2009, alleging that David Holbrook ("Holbrook"), DAS Human Resource Manager 4, who is the Division Chief accountable for the state's COBRA program, was previously removed from two state agencies for disciplinary reasons. The letter also alleged that a friend of Holbrook's had changed his state personnel records to conceal these removals. The letter further alleged Holbrook displayed favoritism, denied subordinates pay for vacation denied while he improperly received pay for vacation denied, and he violated the DAS time reporting policy