
Hawaii is figuring deeper and deeper in the GSA “excessive spending” scandal.
CNN reports that the GSA “appears to have spent $330,000 to relocate an employee from Denver to Hawaii, and likely “millions” on others over a two year period.”
That’s a tidy sum. It follows revelations yesterday that GSA employees took a 5-day trip to Hawaii for an hour-long ribbon cutting in 2011.
The relocation expenses were revealed in an interview with a GSA event planner conducted by an investigator with the GSA inspector general in March, 2011.
CNN reports:
It is unclear from the transcript whether the government was reimbursed for any of the expenses.
In the one particular relocation from Denver to Hawaii costing the GSA $330,000, the event planner said the employee “stayed on for just the one year and then quit. Left the GSA,” despite signing an agreement to stay on after relocation, “Wow that is wasting taxpayer money,” the investigator said.
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