From Rollcall.com: Officials at the General Services Administration invented fake awards as an excuse to hold taxpayer-funded dinner events at conferences, according to an interview transcript obtained by Roll Call.
At one such event, GSA bestowed the “jackass award” on an employee, a GSA employee told the agency’s Office of Inspector General, according to the transcript.
The GSA is under fire because the inspector general revealed in an April 2 report that the agency spent almost $823,000 on an October 2010 Las Vegas conference for about 300 people. The inspector general also said officials violated scores of rules and regulations governing spending of taxpayer dollars.
In the wake of the report, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson resigned, two of her top aides were fired and four other managers were placed on leave.
House Republicans say the “jackass award” and other revelations in interviews conducted by the inspector general show that the problem is deeper than the Las Vegas conference.
“GSA has been using tax dollars as a slush fund to pay for lavish parties and exotic vacations. From what we’re learning, GSA has a whole laundry list of instances where they were abusing taxpayer dollars. This goes a lot farther and a lot deeper than what we’ve seen,” said Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), who chairs a Transportation and Infrastructure subpanel with jurisdiction over the GSA.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/gsa_made_up_jackass_award_to_justify_dinners-213735-1.html?pos=hatxt
And yet our senior and senile senator, Crybaby/Coward Harry Reid thinks the investigation of the GSA by the House and Senate is not justified.
What a senile moron Senator we have in Nevada. (Well, actually, in Washington D.C., Reid does not live in Nevada anymore. He lives at the Ritz Carlton in Washington D.C. and only makes token visits to Nevada)
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