Posted on 04/11/2008 1:07:48 PM PDT by Cagey
Internal funds cover the $13,500 tab for filets and drinks, they say. Auditors call it 'abusive.'
WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Postal Service rang up a $13,500 tab at an Orlando steakhouse, it spared no expense during a five-hour meal that government investigators are calling "abusive" in its extravagance.
The order -- charged to government credit cards -- included more than $3,000 for drinks, more than $500 for shrimp cocktails and almost $900 for mini crab cakes, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigate arm of Congress.
And then there's the steak.
"The better question is probably what they didn't order," GAO investigator Gregory Kutz said Wednesday. He counted 81 entrees -- including just about every kind of steak -- from the 2006 feast at Ruth's Chris Steak House on Sand Lake Road.
Related links GAO report (PDF) Postal Service $13,000 dinner = good PR for Ruth's Chris Filet, lingerie, Web dates -- with your tax dollars Stamps, stamps and more stamps Photos The GAO cited the Orlando meal as part of an overarching audit into abuse of government credit cards. The report, released this week, found 41 percent of purchases reviewed by the GAO from 2005 to 2006 failed "basic internal control standards."
These include safety measures such as getting proper authorization or having someone other than the cardholder review the expense. A lack of oversight led to abuses such as embezzling or odd expenses such as lingerie, electronic equipment and, in one case, $77,700 worth of expensive suits bought by the Pentagon.
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That's enough to make a fellow "Go Postal..."
Watering the Tree of Liberty is coming sooner than later I’m afraid....
Glad to see they like their beef...
“I wonder what Sean Hannity thinks of this?! LOL!”
Sean thinks they are great Americans.
yup.....whats your flavor, .223 or 7.62x39 ?
At least they didn’t order the Lobster-gram.
Ladies and Gents, the most disorganized and inefficient government agency we have, here for your perusal.
Why the heck they have “Government Credit cards”????
To buy stamps?????????
FReeekyyyy
If it were not for junk mail, they wouldn’t have much to do.
But I am stating the obvious.
A $13,500 tab? They were ripped.
Ruth's Chris Steak House sucks.
$167 per person isn’t that bad.
Their bone-in ribeye cooked black and blue and with the blue cheese crust is impeccable...SSZ
How does the Post Office get government credit cards?
I thought they were spun-off as a private entity?
Ruth’s Chris? In Orlando they should have gone to Charlie’s, IMHO
Hey wait until Hillary or Obama’s department of socialized medicine plutocrats start using their Gobment credit cards to have their “medical meetings” The postal workers will look like pikers in comparison, guranteed.
He forgets to mention that it’s a felony to compete with the Post Office in the delivery of 1st class mail. I wonder how much I could make raising cattle if the federal government would only outlaw all competition.
We're being screwed by this government.
So the peasant tax payers can foot the bill for their lavish meals, high end salaries, their top shelf medical benefits and their killer retirement pensions.
All at the stupid tax payers expense.
I’ve still got 10 tins of Czechoslovakian stuff from the 60’s, corrosive as hell, but lasts forever.
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