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Suffolk audit planned on double dipping

A file photo of a police cruiser outside

Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | A file photo of a police cruiser outside of the Suffolk County Third Precinct in Bayshore, NY March 2, 2010.

Suffolk Comptroller Joseph Sawicki has ordered "a very serious audit" of county agencies because of evidence that police and other employees who took military leave kept their public and military pay in violation of county policy.

Sawicki said preliminary indications are that an undetermined number of county employees who "doubled dipped" might owe the county at least $852,000 in reimbursements.

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