By Caroline Kelly @ CNN.com, Jan. 3

A Senate Judiciary Committee investigation found that the US Marshals Service has a "culture of misconduct" that includes misused funds for expensive office furniture along with hiring and accountability violations, according to a report released by the committee Thursday.

The committee found "a culture of mismanagement, reckless spending, favoritism, and a general lack of accountability at the USMS," the 430-page report reads. "In what has been described by whistleblowers as a 'frat' style of management, senior officials appear to act with impunity while lower level employees are held to a stringent standard."

The committee found several instances of what it characterized as inappropriate hiring and human resources practices, such as preferential treatment and the hiring of friends or relatives [....] the Marshals Service was also plagued by financial mismanagement [....]