Since I have completed or reviewed almost all of these cases in my twelve years in Employee Relations, I have noticed several trends or basic facts about falsification cases. This report should serve to show interested managers and policy makers how big of a problem is caused by people who falsify government documents to protect personal interests.
Most supervisors see none.
Even deciding officials who handle several adverse actions a year will see only a few. Even then they don't see many of the problems exhibited afterwards. Rather than just try to convince supervisors by talking about the problem, I reviewed the cases in an attempt to show what really happens in the long run. If you take the time to carefully read all of these case summaries, you may well conclude for yourself that people who falsify documents for their own gain are extremely bad risks for this agency. I've seen it time after time for more than a decade, supervisors choose a lenient action which has zero corrective affect on the underlying character flaw.