Posted on 01/22/2010 5:35:34 AM PST by bestintxas
From an extra day's hotel stay so military officials can fit in a round of golf to federal workers who fly business class instead of coach, questionable travel expenditures have remained a persistent problem across the federal government in recent years.
At the State Department, for instance, nearly 80 percent of the more than $300,000 in airfare reviewed at one little-known office in fiscal 2007 and 2008 went to pay for business-class airline tickets, and many of those purchases violated federal travel policy.
One senior manager at the National Science Foundation took or extended taxpayer-funded trips totaling more than $10,000 to facilitate liaisons with women in Paris, Tokyo and Vancouver.
And a former deputy secretary at the Pentagon repaid more than $17,000 after investigators said he extended official travel for personal reasons on more than a dozen trips, a finding the former official said he strongly denies.
The Washington Times obtained information about these and dozens of other internal travel-related investigations through Freedom of Information Act requests to federal agencies across government, as well as a review of public reports, audits and court records.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Meanwhile, Joe 6P’s in flyover country are camping in the back yard in lieu of any vacation.
Best of all, this guy still works at NSF.
/s
The fed workers are just following the lead of the dear leader and the congress.
I’d like to find out how Obama-rama-dama got to MA to hype for Coakley.
Air Horse One?
If so, is he allowed to write off $200,000 plus ground travel costs to us?
Why didn’t the DNC fund the trip?
“No more golf or shopping trips for the Obamas, OK?
I have an idea....can the woman of America send Michelle
all their old belts, and the men of America send Barack all their old golf clubs......? You know, those particular items that are waiting to be put out at the nearest weather opportunity in a yard sale? I think it would make a statement equal to leaving tea bags everywhere....
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Best of all, this guy still works at NSF.
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Probably doing research for SUPER-Viagra.
(/sarc)
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/22/taxpayers-bucks-spent-on-trysts-golf-skiing//print/
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