Overtime irregularities the latest scandal at Port Everglades
A Port Everglades supervisor has been placed on administrative leave because of overtime irregularities involving workers he supervised.
A Port Everglades supervisor has been placed on administrative leave because of overtime irregularities involving workers he supervised, officials said Friday.
The questionable overtime payments are just the latest scandal to rock the Broward County-owned port, where a number of former employees have been arrested in a credit card fraud scandal being investigated by the FBI and county auditors.
The overtime issues were uncovered during the port’s own review of expenditures for cruise terminal workers, officials said.
Geoffroy Prevost, 51, a skilled trades supervisor in the port’s operations division, was informed Monday that he was being investigated for possible disciplinary action as a result of the overtime review. Prevost has worked at the port since 2006 and was promoted to supervisor three years ago.
“During that review, management became aware of potential irregularities related to the assignment of overtime hours specific to certain employees who you supervise,” Operations Director Robert Flint wrote in a memo to Prevost.
A pre-disciplinary hearing was scheduled, but on Prevost tried to resign Thursday, effective immediately, officials said.
“Be advised that given the serious nature of the alleged misconduct for which the pre-disciplinary meeting was scheduled, your offer to resign your employment with Broward County is under consideration and we will advise you as soon as a decision has been made,” Flint wrote Thursday, placing Prevost on paid administrative leave.
Prevost did not return a phone message seeking comment.
No other information about the overtime irregularities was available and the investigation is continuing, port spokeswoman Ellen Kennedy said.
The latest investigation follows a yearlong look into purchasing card abuses by port workers in its public works department. Four former employees and a company owner that did business at the port have been charged in federal court with conspiracy to commit fraud, allegedly making fraudulent pcard charges to make money for themselves.
The charges involved more than $400,000 in questionable purchases over the past decade.