NZ should demand the money back
Posted on 01/08/2017 6:18:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
Australia’s heath minister temporarily stepped down Monday while her travel expense claims are investigated. The scandal surrounding Minister Sussan Ley’s expense claims could trigger the first reshuffle of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Cabinet since his government was re-elected six months ago.
Ley has been under scrutiny since last week over allegations that she made taxpayers pay for personal travel in recent years, including to the tourist city of Gold Coast where she bought a luxury apartment in 2015.
Turnbull said Ley had agreed to stand aside without ministerial pay while the prime minister’s department investigated whether her expense claims met guidelines. …
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This the day after New Zealand’s PM resigned over 13mil to the Clinton Foundation.
Is it catchy, or something, down there?
NZ should demand the money back
I think of the way car vouchers were abused at the investment banks i worked at in the late 90s.
I dont know if the higher ups turned the other way because they were making so much, or what.
Spending 200 in a night having a car take you to a few clubs doesn’t sound like much, but multiplied several times a week by a few hundred people, it’s a pretty penny.
Stopped after the recession.
To the spoils go the victor.
She must have dreamt one night she was Michelle Obama and went into work the next day and started travelling...
The Entitlement Dream...
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