| Billing Taxpayers For Food Was 'running joke' at GSA |
| Apr-17-2012 |
| Keywords: gsa, congress hearings, running joke, billing taxpayers |
Much to the dismay of lawmakers and American taxpayers, Inspector General Brian Miller, who blew the whistle on agency spending with a report on its $820,000 conference in Las Vegas, explained how leaders with the western region of GSA got around the administration's rule of not having food at conferences.
"Many times in Region 9, witnesses told us that it became a running joke with the Region 9 regional commissioner that even at staff meetings he would say, 'We're going to have a meeting in another location and we're going to have food so we have to do what?' And his senior staff is said to have said, 'Give out awards,'" Miller said.
The Region 9 commissioner Miller referred to in his testimony Tuesday before a House transportation subcommittee is Jeffrey Neely. That official did not attend Tuesday's hearing, after having invoked his right not to answer questions at a congressional hearing a day earlier.
Miller at one point said Neely "put people down." He said one witness said that when one worker tried to raise objections about activities at the agency, "he squashed her like a bug."
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