About a year ago, I posted about a big blow-up at an obscure Federal agency that had a bit of an egregious spending problem.
The Washington Examiner did an in-depth series of articles. The head of this agency retired last November but nothing is being done to clean it up.
The House Oversight Committee led by Darrell Issa, R-Calif. looked into it and Issa had (in part) this to say:
"FMCS employees purchased many items for their personal use with their [government purchase cards].
"In addition to leasing a vehicle and service charges, these items included cell phones for family members, high-end cable and internet packages for home use, furniture for a home office, a Bose stereo system, two high-definition televisions, bluetooth earpieces, leather-bound Kindle e-readers, $200 table lamps, coat racks costing almost $400, air purifiers, a television cabinet costing $2,300, thumb drives that cost $500 each, and $30,000 worth of picture frames over two years."
The spending on luxuries, such as $1,000 for a television in an in-office gym, is “extremely serious,” the letter continued.
Just another example of our tax dollars at work...