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Posted on 01/18/2019 2:37:51 PM PST by jazusamo
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Air Force detailing $134,587.81 plus $50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer” for a total of $184.587.81 for then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) Congressional delegation (CODEL) to Italy and Ukraine in 2015.
Judicial Watch filed a December 2015 FOIA lawsuit after the Air Force failed to respond to an August 2015 request ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense (No 1:15-cv-02236)) for:
All records regarding mission taskings of flights escorting members of Congress
All records concerning transportation costs for transporting members of Congress
All passenger manifests (DD-2131) for transporting members of Congress
All weekly travel reports for members of Congress
The documents show that from July 30 to August 6, Pelosi took a trip to Milan, Rome and Naples, Italy, and Kiev, Ukraine, for herself, her husband , several members of congress and their spouses. The Italy trip included Milan, Rome and Naples with visits to the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, Duomo and viewing Da Vinci’s “Last Supper.”
The documents also show the Air Force’s negative response to a Pelosi staff request for a specific crew for Pelosi’s flight. An official notes that it: “would be a disastrous precedent to set even if it were possible.” The Air Force further points out: “Our ARC crews have plenty to balance already with military duties and their civilian employers.”
The documents also detail a CODEL trip for Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO), who traveled commercial flights to Asia , including Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan; Seoul, Korea; plus Beijing and Hong Kong, China. This trip, with flights and per diems, cost at least $26,009.03 .
“Speaker Pelosi has a demonstrated record of abusing the perks of office that give her access to military luxury travel paid for by taxpayers,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch previously uncovered that Pelosi’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over one two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
Judicial Watch’s work exposing Pelosi’s travel abuses resulted in her successor John Boehner declining to use Air Force luxury jets to travel to his Ohio congressional district.
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$50,000 for an advance of funds for an “escort officer”
I’m starting to think Trump needed to ground Pelosi as she is under investigation for treason and was deemed a flight risk !
Its Stealing
shes gonna pay for her sins somedays
Actually, pretty cheap booze
I agree...Judicial Watch not only filed a FOIA request but had to file a lawsuit to get that info after they refused to turn over the info.
That is still happening regularly in many cases
“escort officer” is the polite name for a gigolo.
Dayum that woman drinks a lot.
Explains a lot.
What is their purpose? to gather friends against Trump, to let them know we are waiting him out and we will be back in business, don’t deal with him,. These treasonous evil scumbags. Fat head ted did it and so did Kerry. Im glad trump grounded them
She needs to be billed to pay that 2+ million back.
She can afford to pay it. Isnt that the rationale of every democrar socialist like Nanzi for their tax hikes on people and businesses?
I just want her to consistently live HER OWN STARED VALUES.
Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121
U.S. Department of Justice Comment Line: 202-353-1555 Switchboard: 202-514-2000
TALKING POINTS: Taxpayers demand these expenditures be stopped.
Americans struggle to make ends meet but are forced to pay for these useless, expensive trips for self-serving Congress members.
This must stop at once.
“Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them. Pelosi, D-Calif., recently joined Obama on a Judicial Watch list of Top 10 corrupt politicians because of her “sense of entitlement,” the group said.
“Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”
Judicial Watch obtained documents from the Pentagon in 2008 that suggest Pelosi has been treating the Air Force like her own personal airline, the evaluation said.
The old bag should be ushered out of Congress ASAP.
“”time spent on official business and cost.””
How could any of us forget the “business” that obozo threw in on golf trips so the taxpayers had to pay the bill? He was the master at that. And it’s amazing that nothing is ever done about it no matter WHO it is...amazing and criminal!
Nancy’s life is threatening to turn into a series of daily disclosures of her life of political corruption — caused by her refusal to end the Shutdown and thereby take herself out of the spotlight.
What I would really like to find out, now that Obama is out of office, what the real cost of his trip to India was. Was it $200 million per day?
Bump!
Communism is wonderful for the inner circle.
$2,100,744.59 over one two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol.
Thanks jazusamo.
It took four years to pry this info out of the Air force?
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