City employees chat away on taxpayer-funded cell phones
Well, slap me down:
In this day and age when you're paying more and more to run your car and heat and cool your home, we've discovered some city of Houston workers are talking their way right through your money.
11 News uncovered thousands of minutes of personal calls and virtually no safeguards in place to limit them to city business.
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But chances are you won't come close to the deal Tony Emanuel has.
His job gives him a free phone and he can talk as long as he wants whenever he wants.
The best part is that he doesn't pay a dime.
The taxpayers pay for his conversations.
Emanuel is an inspector for Houston Police Department's Neighborhood Protection.
"His supervisors have told me they're conducting an inquiry," said Lt. Robert Manzo, HPD.
11 News discovered the city is not collecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars from employees who make personal calls on their city cell phones.
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HPD had no idea about these calls until we told them.
In fact, it doesn't know what any of its 823 cell phones are used for.
"It's a good thing you brought this up to our attention," said Lt. Manzo.
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