5 GSA employees went to Hawaii for week to attend 1 hour ribbon cutting for federal building
| The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Wednesday that five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Administration went to Hawaii for up to a week in 2011 to attend an hour-long ribbon cutting on space leased by the federal government for the FBI.
Details of the incident surfaced in a transcript of an interview between the GSA Inspector General’s Office and a GSA employee. The employee indicated to the IG investigator that trip was not isolated and that there was another, longer junket scheduled for Hawaii this fall. That one would be in Hilo, Hawaii for 10 days and would include ribbon cuttings for a federal building, a post office and perhaps a courthouse. The transcript indicates that some of the GSA employees went snorkeling during their free time in the mornings. The House panel is one of two in the chamber that will hold hearings about the GSA scandal next week. In October 2010, a GSA division spent more than $823,000 at an employee-training conference in Las Vegas. During the investigation and the released of the Inspector General’s report this month, videos surfaced of employees do skits about the lavish spending. And top agency officials have resigned |
Publius Prime 
It sounds like a good time to begin another federal agency. But this one should be large and have broad investigative powers that do one thing. That being investigate nothing but government agency’s for fraud waste and abuse. Then being the Govt. likes creating policing powers give them the authority to make arrest’s. Hopefully some of these from GSA will begin to be seeing ethics or corruption charges filed. I believe it only takes the theft of $100 or $200 dollars for a crime to be considered a felony. I think $830,000 would more than constitute a felony charge. Start locking em up boys.