The GSA “excessive-spending” saga continues.
Turns out, “five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Administration went to Hawaii for up to a week in 2011 to attend an hour-long ribbon cutting on space leased by the federal government for the FBI,” Fox News reports.
GSA Administrator Martha Johnson resigned amid an Inspector General’s report released this month on the excessive amount of taxpayer dollars spent at an employee-training conference in Las Vegas in 2010.
The agency, which manages buildings and real estate for the federal government, spent more than $823,000 on 300 employees at the convention. The IG’s report says some of the money went toward a comedian, a mind reader, commemorative coin sets, a clown and pricey shrimp.
The Fox News report says the details about the Hawaii trip surfaced in an interview transcript between the IG’s office and a GSA employee:
“The employee indicated to the IG investigator that trip was not isolated and that there was another, longer junket scheduled for Hawaii this fall. … The transcript indicates that some of the GSA employees went snorkeling during their free time in the mornings.”
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