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City auditor general Ken Hughes tabled his annual report on the fraud and waste hotline on Thursday, shedding light on theft, lawbreaking and peculiar behaviour in the municipal public service.

Seven employees were fired and seven others resigned after the AG investigated tips from the snitch line in 2016. More employees had their knuckles rapped by management.

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The AG’s office collected 287 tips from the hotline in 2016 – a 10 per cent decrease from 2015 – with the most coming in the area of misuse of city property or time. There were 82 complaints that fell into that category.

An employee was canned when the city found out he or she was working elsewhere while calling in sick. The city recovered $1,229 in sick leave payments from the employee. Another fired employee was doctoring a time sheet, marking work down when no work was actually done.

In another case, an employee was busted stealing copper from a city facility. The AG investigation didn’t even get to finish the probe because the employee was fired because of another investigation.