Hotline Tips Triggering New Investigations into GSA Staff Got Bonuses for Planning Lavish 2010 Event Mastermind Behind Vegas Bash Still Being Paid Agency Spent $250G on Rewards Racks Up More Than Just Bill Comment 20 or 21 women involved in Secret Service military scandal at Colombia hotel senator says Timeline details travel 2nd panel trips by chief blasts parties bonuses executive asserts right to remain silent Eighth employee placed leave Ruling testimony doesn't help victims Letters Fourth Amendment highspeed rail immigration Top News Headlines Warren Buffett Has Prostate Cancer traveled lavishly after warnings official Jeff Neely reported himself whistleblower testifies excessive spending

The GSA scandal's powerful and powerless players It's getting heated on the Hill. Former and current employees of the General Services Administration (GSA) are being publicly grilled this week in repeated Congressional hearings following the reveal of a scandal involving a lavish 2010 conference for federal employees that carried an $830,000 price tag, billed to America's taxpayers.Some of the key players in the scandal have accepted ... GSA scandal: Is Congress engaged in hearing overkill? Lawmakers holding four separate hearings on GSA scandal, raising questions over government waste in government waste investigation With GSA scandal, blame the matrix? The scandal plaguing the GSA just keeps getting worse. It turns out that Jeffrey Neely, the senior government executive who coordinated the over-the-top conference that's the focus of a GSA investigation, brought his wife along on some of his trips — on taxpayers' dime. Five additional long-time GSA employees have been placed on administrative leave as the investigation broadens. Read full ... GSA scandal: Does agency have culture of waste, fraud, and abuse? Critics of the huge federal bureaucracy have a history of missteps to cite, from well before the latest GSA scandal, in which Jeffrey Neeley authorized $823,000 for a conference in Las Vegas.  Bribes, kickbacks in GSA scandal? Agency's inspector general wants Justice Dept. probe; Lawmakers blast GSA at hearing that's set to continues The Real GSA Scandal: Job-Killing Big Labor Payoffs Stop the presses: Big-spending Democrats are finally up in arms over a federal boondoggle. Details of the U.S. General Services Administration bacchanalia get worse by the day. We've graduated from overpriced breakfasts in Vegas, friends-and-family junkets galore and in-house videos mocking their own profligacy to extravagant bonuses, alleged kickbacks, obstructionism and bribes. Republicans try to pin GSA scandal on White House Republican lawmakers tried Tuesday to tie the spending scandal at the General Services Administration to the White House, pressing current and former agency officials to explain why they met with senior administration officials more than a week before disciplining most of the implicated officials. Republicans seek to pin GSA scandal on White House Republican lawmakers tried Tuesday to tie the spending scandal at the General Services Administration to the White House, pressing current and former agency officials to explain why they met with senior administration officials more than a week before disciplining most of the implicated officials. Romney Pins GSA Scandal on Obama But Gives Him a Pass on Secret Service Mitt Romney tried on Wednesday to pin a federal agency's Las Vegas spending spree on the Obama administration, but gave the president a pass on the widening scandal involving members of the Secret Service and military who allegedly hired prostitutes while on assignment in Colombia. GSA Spending Scandal Gets More Embarrassing With Rap Lyrics Congressional hearings continue today, in order to leave no humiliating detail unreported in the investigation of the government's high-rolling General Services Administration, which spent more than $820,000 on a four-day conference in Las Vegas. Despite GSA official/party-planner Jeff Neely's refusal to testify, we've already learned all about the clown, mind ... More »
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