U.S. Agency Head Forced Out by Lavish Spending in Vegas
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The head of the General Services Administration resigned after an inquiry found the U.S. agency lavished $44 daily breakfasts on employees and spent $6,325 on commemorative coins for a meeting at a Las Vegas area resort.
The taxpayer-funded $823,000 conference in October 2010 at the M Resort Spa Casino in Henderson, Nevada, also involved a payment of $8,130 to print “yearbooks” for participants and $5 each for “Mini Monte Cristo sandwiches,” according to an investigation released yesterday by the agency’s inspector general. The breakfasts cost almost four times the government’s $12 allowance for the morning meal in Las Vegas.