The documents, which do not identify the employee, are part of the state's ongoing audit of the so-called p-cards at the system's 35 public colleges and universities.
The Georgia Tech administrator used the state-issued cards which function like credit cards and are billed to government agencies and ``submitted fraudulent invoices to conceal personal purchases'' to take the money between 2001 and 2007, the report said.
The school's spokesman said he could not discuss the case, citing an ongoing criminal investigation. University System spokesman John Millsaps said the administrator worked at the school's Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience.
The system's chancellor ordered an audit of more than 600,000 p-card transactions last year after a state report showed the $350 million annual program was routinely abused. A dozen university employees have so far resigned, been fired or retired because of p-card misuse, and disciplinary actions are pending in other cases, according to the report.
The report details a total of 18 fraud cases. One shows that a Georgia Tech administrative assistant used the card to charge cable and pay-per-view to the school, while a tenured professor made numerous personal charges using a card.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of more than 4 million p-card transactions last month showed that government employees have used the purchasing cards for everything from tattoos to concert tickets.
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