EPA questioned over $9,000 in bonuses for new employee

By Kyle Feldscher, Kyle Feldscher

Published December 20, 2015

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The Environmental Protection Agency's independent investigator is raising questions about $9,000 in bonuses awarded to a new employee within three months of her hiring date.

The new director of the Research Triangle Park Finance Center, in North Carolina, received an "unprecedented" two bonuses totaling $9,000 within three months of her start date, the EPA Office of the Inspector General wrote in a report issued Monday.