Pentagon Ticket Scandal Update
A while back, I told you about the Pentagon spending $100M on plane tickets it never used. Well, CAGW blog has an update:
According to a recent GAO discovery, the Department of Defense threw away $100 million on partially used, totally unused, and fraudulently purchased airline tickets. This is partially because DoD has a week travel voucher system that some say amounts to an “Honors System” similar to the one at my grade school. A prime example is the really smart DoD employee who purchased about 70 airline tickets costing upwards of $60,000. Lucky for him, this guy did not have anywhere to travel and he did not suffer easily from a guilty conscience so he sold the tickets to friends and family at a discounted value, in essence, selling their tax dollars back to them.
When you set up a system where no one is accountable for anything, you can expect this stuff.
