http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/2542921
"Government credit cards continue to be misused by federal bureaucrats to charge personal items such as diamond rings, ski clothes, karaoke machines, even a mounted deer head. Obviously no one is minding the store.
The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, reported this week that Defense Department employees and other bureaucrats used cards to make hundreds of millions of dollars in improper purchases. A Navy employee charged $132,000 for cosmetic surgery, a motorbike, two cars and other items. A Defense Department worker, operating a scam with her brother, charged $1.7 million in bogus purchases on a government card.
The Department of Education used government purchasing cards to buy 241 personal computers for $261,500. The computers have never been found. Many other questionable purchases, such as overpriced briefcases, apparently received rubber-stamp approval.
Meanwhile, government card users failed to take advantage of $300 million in available discounts one of the reasons for the cards being issued. Incredibly, few government employees have been disciplined for their transgressions, the GAO finds."
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Why can they not find 241 PC's when they were charged to CC that requires an order and/or signature? Even with no signature, someone had to take delivery of the units; who signed for them...
For those that wait for the "TAX
--WP
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