Congress thinks it’s time the scandal-plagued Department of Veterans Affairs got out of the Parisian luxury hotel business.
Pershing Hall is a five-star boutique hotel in the heart of Paris, where rooms cost $500 to $900 a night.
The building, which once housed a brothel among other unsavory businesses, was purchased by the America Legion in 1928 to honor World War I general John "Black Jack" Pershing and his troops.
The U.S. government acquired the property in the 1930s after years of neglect and in 1991 transferred authority for the site to the VA, which almost immediately started looking for ways to sell the place.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-va-owns-a-five-star-boutique-hotel-in-paris-and-congress-isnt-happy-about-it-2015-12
Pershing Hall is a five-star boutique hotel in the heart of Paris, where rooms cost $500 to $900 a night.
The building, which once housed a brothel among other unsavory businesses, was purchased by the America Legion in 1928 to honor World War I general John "Black Jack" Pershing and his troops.
The U.S. government acquired the property in the 1930s after years of neglect and in 1991 transferred authority for the site to the VA, which almost immediately started looking for ways to sell the place.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-va-owns-a-five-star-boutique-hotel-in-paris-and-congress-isnt-happy-about-it-2015-12
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