The happy guy pictured above in Greece on either a vacation or "business trip" is Steven Snyder.
Last year, Steve was fired from his $130,000-per-year gig as executive director of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System – and charged with six felonies – after he was apparently caught categorizing personal trips as business expenses, pocketing over $26,000 in bogus reimbursements.
Here are details of the allegations from a March 2018 article in The Oklahoman:
[Snyder] was fired after coming under criminal investigation because of an anonymous tip about his travel...
The tip was that "Snyder was engaged in excessive travel for personal business and being reimbursed with state funds," Agent Thomas Helm wrote in a request for a search warrant.
The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services conducted a travel claim analysis because of the tip.
It found he had submitted 21 travel claims for reimbursement between Feb. 7, 2015, and Sept. 29, 2017.
"Nine of the reimbursements, totaling $26,265, were found to have been made surrounding Snyder's personal travel," Helm wrote in the search warrant affidavit. "He ... would arrange for impromptu meetings with investment firms to justify travel expenses."
Trust me. I have no problem using "impromptu meetings," "R&D" and "travel articles" to justify writing off a "business" trip on your federal taxes, but doing it on your employer's dime? That is stealing, and it’s wrong. Obviously, state prosecutors agreed and made sure Snyder's punishment fit the crime.