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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Dec. 6 (UPI) --
New Mexico's Sandia National Laboratories is accused of privately giving bonuses to employees who have been disciplined over security problems.
Sandia officials did not comment on specific cases but acknowledged some people disciplined did get raises consistent with Sandia's compensation system, the Journal said.
Grassley said the disciplinary issue "appears to be a top-level management failure," and blamed Sandia former president.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, whose staff has been looking into the issue, had asked for a federal investigation into the allegations, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
In a letter to Sandia's federal managers, written last year but which became public over the weekend, the senator asked whether the disciplinary action was "a smokescreen designed to protect everyone involved and to deceive the public."
The security problems that Sandia managers had to deal with included stolen computers, a lost set of keys to a high-security lab area and guards sleeping on the job.
One employee, who received a five-day suspension because of the security problems, reportedly got an $18,500 bonus three months later.
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