I agrere TS. BUT in situations like this, I think SCPD needs stand up and take all of the heat as this is not like one of their guys got caught DWI and they helped him get hom instead of booking him. I (along with most of the community) will have mroe respect for them if they take it like men. He was also let go by SCPD; so atleast they got that going for them. I have made mistakes in my career, and I find its better just to say "****, I screwed that up....how do I fix it?" rather then back pedal or try and shift blame. It blows over quicker when you just admit it. I screwed up and never got funding for work that was performed. So my compoany had to front it (it was over a million dollars), so I was brought before the big VP of the company, and he asked waht happened. I said honestly one of the cells in my excel file was not linked properly and the mistake carried through to the final payment. He goes "OK, we will front, but make sure you get that money back next month and be careful next time." Everyone thought I was going to get fired for it, but I got promoted 2 months later. You take the wind out of peoples sails when you just admit it.
