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Friday, May 25, 2012

The Two-Way

Man At Center Of Federal Agency's Las Vegas Scandal Leaves His Job

Jeff Neely during an April 16 hearing on Capitol Hill. He declined to answer any of the lawmakers' questions.

May 25, 2012 Jeff Neely, the regional official at the General Services Administration who hosted a 2010 taxpayer-funded conference that became a scandal as details about excessive spending, gifts and lavish parties were revealed, is no longer with the agency.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Two-Way

At Scandal-Ridden Federal Agency, All Sorts Of Abuses

April 17, 2012 "Every time we turned over a stone we found 50 more with all kinds of things crawling out," General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller told Congress this morning.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

The Two-Way

Outrage, Apologies At Hearing Into Federal Agency's Vegas Scandal

April 16, 2012 General Services Administration officials spent excessively on a Las Vegas conference. So far, the agency's top official has resigned and several others have been fired.

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Friday, April 06, 2012

The Two-Way

VIDEO: Rapping Federal Worker Adds To Evidence Of Waste And Excess

From the GSA employee's rap video.

April 6, 2012 As if there wasn't enough outrage already about the "excessive and wasteful" spending by the federal government's General Services Administration at a 2010 conference in Las Vegas, now there's video evidence.

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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

The Two-Way

What Happened In Vegas Costs Federal Properties Manager Her Job

The Las Vegas Strip: sometimes what happens there does come back to bite you.

April 3, 2012 Excessive spending at a 2010 conference that was held just off the Strip has led to Martha Johnson's resignation. Food and drinks alone cost taxpayers nearly $150,000.

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Monday, April 02, 2012

It's All Politics

Obama Administration Tripped Up By GSA's Vegas Spending Scandal

Business clown.

April 2, 2012 The GSA conference with the clown, comedian and mind reader is the kind of embarrassing story any administration wants to avoid on its watch, especially at a time of fiscal austerity when federal workers are coming under attack from some conservatives and a general election looms for a president seeking a second term.

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