Posted on 11/11/2011 8:52:06 AM PST by MissesBush
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the landlord, can count on at least 12 more months of rental income from the agency that protects his life.
Federal spending records show the U.S. Secret Service approved a purchase order on Nov. 2 to pay Mr. Biden $26,400 for agents to stay at a cottage on lakefront property he owns in Delaware.
Edwin M. Donovan, special agent in charge at the Secret Service's Office of Public Affairs in Washington, said Mr. Biden isn’t receiving all that money at once. Instead, he said, the purchase order shows plans by the Secret Service to pay Mr. Biden $2,200 per month for another year.
In other words, Mr. Biden isn’t raising the rent.
He has been charging the Secret Service that same rate under previous purchases orders, first reported by The Washington Times this past summer, totaling $13,200.
The White House declined to comment Thursday on the latest purchase order other than to point out that the cottage property was an existing rental when the Secret Service moved in.
But officials declined to say whether Mr. Biden considered letting agents stay in his cottage free of charge, or even at a reduced rate, following criticisms from taxpayer watchdogs who questioned the arrangement when it became public in July.
Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for the Citizens Against Government Waste, a watchdog group, said Thursday that Mr. Biden and his family are entitled to all of the protection they get to ensure their safety. But, she said, continuing to charge the Secret Service rent undercuts the image Mr. Biden has sought to cultivate as a cost cutter intent on rooting out waste in government.
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whatta parasite.
some congresssional families, such as the bidens and reids,
make several generations of income off the tax payer.
What a hypocrite ! If I did something like that, I would have been expected to pay for such a service and give up the rental space. These libs talk about how we shouldn’t make too much money and only be permitted to make enough to live off but not enough to where we can take a good vacation or put some money away like fore retirement but yet they make money hand over fist !
Took the lesson from the Clinton’s at Chappaqua.
Every day, a new topic for Republican ad makers.
...................Took the lesson from the Clinton’s at Chappaqua......................
Yeah, I wonder whether Slick and his beast are still getting paid rent by the SS, when he should be paying us to be accompanied by SS all over the world, (their pay, travel, hotels, meals, clothing, etc.) as he makes millions from his canned speeches to fawning crowds.
I don’t mind that we’re paying the Secret Service to protect D Student Biden. He is (unfortunately) the Vice President, after all. But I do object to paying him for the privilege of protecting him.
If I remember correctly Bush paid out of his own pocket for improvements at his Crawford ranch to accommodate the Secret Service and I don’t recall any mention of charging them rent for the guest cottage. Had that happened the jackals in the press would have been all over the story.
A small corruption is still corruption.
How can anybody justify this?
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