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Date Posted: 07:39:26 09/15/07 Sat In reply to: Bev 's message, "Oro I thought you said the rep did not like to waste tax payers money ." on 15:59:08 09/14/07 Fri I told you down below that ALL politicians and burecrats love to spend your and my money. It make zero deference what party they belong to. Now, when you talk about private individual citizens, liberals are always looking for handouts and other peoples money where conservatives usually only want to spend their own money. >Take a look at the doj under bush and now gone >gonzalas > > >href="http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070 >914_ap_snackstakebigbiteoutofdojbudget.html">http://www >.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070914_ap_snackstak >ebigbiteoutofdojbudget.html > >Snacks Take Big Bite Out of DOJ BudgetLARA JAKES >JORDAN >The Associated Press >WASHINGTON - It doesn't rival the Pentagon's $600 >toilet seat, but the Justice Department can fork over >a mean $4 meatball. > >An internal Justice audit, released Friday, showed the >department spent nearly $7 million to plan, host or >send employees to ten conferences over the last two >years. This included paying $4 per meatball at one >lavish dinner and spreading an average of $25 worth of >snacks around to each participant at a movie-themed >party. > >There was plenty, too, for those needing to satisfy a >sweet tooth. > >More than $13,000 was spent on cookies and brownies >for 1,542 people who attended a four-day "Weed and >Seed" conference in August 2005, according to the >audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. >Fine. And a "networking" session replete with >butterfly shrimp, coconut lobster skewers and Swedish >meatballs at a Community Oriented Policing Services >conference in July 2006 cost more than $60,000. > >The report, which looked at the 10 priciest Justice >Department conferences between October 2004 and >September 2006, was ordered by the Senate >Appropriations Committee. It also found that >three-quarters of the employees who attended the >conferences demanded daily reimbursement for the cost >of meals while traveling , effectively double-dipping >into government funds. > >Auditors "found that using appropriated funds to pay >for expensive meals and snacks at certain DOJ >conferences, while allowable, appear to have been >extravagant," the report concluded. > >Responding, the Justice Department's management and >administration office promised to prevent future >extravagances of the sort that that Fine's auditors >turned up. > >A Justice Department spokesman did not have an >immediate comment Friday. > >Six of the 10 conferences were approved by the >department's Office of Justice Programs, whose >assistant attorney general, Regina Schofield, resigned >this week. It could not immediately be determined >whether the report had anything to do with that. > >Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who chairs the Senate panel >that oversees Justice spending, said the audit raises >concerns about how the department uses taxpayer >dollars. > >"I will continue to fight for legislation that insists >on discipline and vigorous oversight in the Justice >Department," Mikulski, D-Md., said in a statement. > >The most expensive conference on the list was a $1.4 >million meeting, in Denver in May 2006, to discuss >Project Safe Neighborhood. The program, which cracks >down on guns, gangs and drugs, was a top priority for >resigning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Planners >spent $143,469 on microphones, video screens and other >technical equipment; $108,866 on food and drinks; and >$638,371 on travel costs to send employees to the >conference, the audit showed. > >Ironically, the cheapest meeting on Fine's list was >the only one held overseas: $181,648 to send FBI >agents to a conference in Cambodia in March 2006. Most >of the price tag , $172,327 , paid travel costs for >the agents. > >In all, the department spent $6.9 million on the 10 >conferences reviewed. The audit did not compare >Justice's conference costs to those at other >government agencies. > >Despite the expense, the audit showed the department's >bottom line has tightened up over the last several >years. The price tag for all Justice conferences >during the two years came to $81 million , down from >$110 million in 2003-04. > >,,, > >The audit by the Justice Department's inspector >general can be found at: >href="http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0742/final >.">http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/plus/a0742/final. >a> > [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| I beg your pardon . | Bev | 09:23:55 09/15/07 Sat |
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