USDA Workers Used Gov't Credit Cards to Buy Concert Tickets, Lingerie:
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Department employees used government credit cards to pay tuition for bartender school, to buy Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets, lingerie and tattoos and to make a down payment on a car.Those Ag workers are a fun bunch, but not up to previous standards:
Last year, audits by the General Accounting Office revealed federal workers have used the cards at adult clubs, brothels, sporting events and to buy jewelry.So how much is on the tab?
A random audit by the department's inspector general of just 300 of the 55,000 department employees who carry the government credit cards showed they had charged $7.7 million in personal purchases in a six-month period from Oct. 1, 2001, to March 31, 2002.Unless my calculator is busted that's an average burn rate of $51K per employee per year! Here's hoping they actually pay the charges off. The report's not too clear on those little details, but what the heck - it's tax money so it doesn't belong to us anyhow.
