Audit Shows Agriculture Dept. Credit Card Misuse

foxglove1

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Fri Jul-11-03 11:44 PM
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Audit Shows Agriculture Dept. Credit Card Misuse

WASHINGTON - Agriculture Department employees used government credit cards to pay tuition for bartender school, to buy Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets, lingerie and tattoos and to make a down payment on a car.

Based on a random audit of 300 cardholders, the department's inspector general estimated that 15 percent of the 55,000 USDA employees who carry the government credit cards — or 8,250 employees — made a total of $5.8 million in purchases other than for bona fide travel expenses. The audit covered a six-month period from Oct. 1, 2001, to March 31, 2002.

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Fri Jul-11-03 11:56 PM
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1. How much more dirty laundry is out there?

Combined with the pilfering of HHS funds to pay for campaign offenses, should George start issueing blanket pardons?

Are they trying to flood us with their dirty laundry so that they somehow cancel out? Don't forget Whitman's use of EPA investigators as bodyguards.

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Sat Jul-12-03 12:15 AM
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2. Dupe... locking

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