In the wake of a General Services Administration conference that cost more than $800,000, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
(D-N.H.) has written to all 15 Cabinet-level agencies seeking any
information from investigations into conference spending and requesting
that the agencies perform audits to ensure such spending does not run
afoul of the law.
“I request that you provide my office with any investigations of conference spending your office has produced and, if you have not examined such spending in detail, that you perform an audit of any questionable conference expenses to ensure taxpayer funds have been spent in accordance with federal law and regulations,” Shaheen wrote in a letter to agency inspectors general.
Her letter comes after it emerged that the GSA put on a $823,000 Las Vegas-area conference for 300 of its employees in 2010. It is alleged that Jeff Neely, a top GSA administrator, spent $2,700 in taxpayer money on a party in a hotel suite and hired a clown and a mindreader to perform. At a House hearing last month, Neeley declined to answer questions about the conference and invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
As a result of the scandal, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson has resigned, two officials have been fired and the agency has canceled a couple of future meetings in Las Vegas.
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/Jeanne-Shaheen-Wants-Audit-of-All-Government-Conferences-214221-1.html?pos=hbtxt
“I request that you provide my office with any investigations of conference spending your office has produced and, if you have not examined such spending in detail, that you perform an audit of any questionable conference expenses to ensure taxpayer funds have been spent in accordance with federal law and regulations,” Shaheen wrote in a letter to agency inspectors general.
Her letter comes after it emerged that the GSA put on a $823,000 Las Vegas-area conference for 300 of its employees in 2010. It is alleged that Jeff Neely, a top GSA administrator, spent $2,700 in taxpayer money on a party in a hotel suite and hired a clown and a mindreader to perform. At a House hearing last month, Neeley declined to answer questions about the conference and invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
As a result of the scandal, GSA Administrator Martha Johnson has resigned, two officials have been fired and the agency has canceled a couple of future meetings in Las Vegas.
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/Jeanne-Shaheen-Wants-Audit-of-All-Government-Conferences-214221-1.html?pos=hbtxt
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