[Gay State Conservative]

I heard something the other day about some IRS hack having stayed for a week or so in a $3500/night hotel room.Good God...I've stayed in hotels in major cities of the world (here,in Asia and in Europe) that were very comfortable indeed (in fact,bordering on luxurious) that cost around $100/night.Just a year or so ago I stayed in a hotel in Honk Kong that I'd literally call "palatial" that was $110 (US) a night.

Thirty five hundred a night? If I ever meet that scumbag I'll spit in his face.

[kimtom]

“”...so in a $3500/night hotel ..”

It is the way the launder the money.

[muawiyah]

I've arranged smaller conferences at the same hotels where IRS was running larger conferences at the same time. They make arrangements to control entire floors. One conference we were planning needed to be moved up or back a week to avoid the IRS which had rented the entire hotel. BTW, it's easier to change hotels than menus and travel dates.

What all of that means is that if someone does a total audit on IRS conferences going back 10 years they'll find IRS rents an awful lot of roof top presidential suites.

I doubt they actually pay that rate though.

BTW, when you do blocks of rooms you get a meeting room for every so many rooms ~ and that can be competitive if there's another party trying to have a meeting in the same hotel. I doubt we've heard the end of the presidential suite thing but I'd put my money on it being less of a scandal than it's being made out to be.