$823k GSA Las Vegas Spending Binge Was Just Tip Of Iceberg
Lawmakers: officials of the General Services Administration jet-setted around the South Pacific on the taxpayers’ dime and the agency’s pricey 2010 Las Vegas conference is just the tip of the iceberg of wasteful spending.
Fox News:
On the second day of testimony, a new committee took up the scandal but still focused in large part on the actions of GSA regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely and his wife. Neely did not attend Tuesday’s hearing before a House transportation subcommittee, a day after pleading the Fifth before a separate congressional panel.Lawmakers, though, hammered Neely and the agency over several trips — particularly a 17-day excursion that apparently took Neely and his wife to Guam, Hawaii and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Family members often were taken along on such trips, and in an email exchange between Neely and his wife last November, they wrote of the planned trip turning into a birthday celebration.
AND, the scum stole iPods and more from GSA storerooms but in that regard they told the truth because they accounted for the missing stuff by reporting it stolen.
GSA Inspector General Brian Miller: “Every time we turned over a stone we found 50 more with all kinds of things crawling out,” …
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