To: JD Fitzgerald

                                        re: Computer Fraud                                                 May 13, 1998

Mr. Fitzgerald,

As you know the BNSF has event readers that record real time when a train passes that location and enters that information in TSS with the symbol, location, date and time.

I was instructed how to access that information and was very helpful in verifying ITD and FTD claims. It is the very same records payroll uses to validate FTD and ITD claims.

On May 1, 1998 I looked up twenty (20) employee call histories then compared it with the Train Event Histories on TSS. Of the twenty I looked at, all twenty were substantially off. When I paged left three times I could see the Train Event times in TSS had been changed. TSS did show the date and time of the change along with the employees ID.

I did recognize one ID belonging to LE Augustus he is in Fort Worth, the others I assume were changed at Vancouver terminal.

I also noticed that at Pasco that the reader at Glade was being used for Departure times. Trains are being departed before crews are on duty.

On May 4, 1998 my access to train event history had been cut off. When I made an inquiry about access I was told that TY&E people were shut out for security reasons.

Mr. Fitzgerald you know from documentation sent to you that when crews have performed service then dead headed and the BNSF is changing the call history as a dead head. Our people are being paid a dead head instead of a working trip.

I will start writing my appeals for IDT and FTD claims that cuts were based on fraudulent records.

It is the very same people that want us to agree to a waiver with the FRA to use a electronic signature for Hours of Service reporting using the very same data that is being changed now and we do not have access to.

JL Schollmeyer
Local Chairman 1637

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