MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
From Dana Bash and Deidre Walsh, CNN, April 6, 2012
Washington -- The same week that a report documented massive overspending at the General Services Administration, a video emerged Thursday showing an agency employee joking about the excess spending and saying he would never be investigated for it.
The video also mentions an awards program for employees that gave out $200,000 worth of taxpayer-funded iPods, electronics and gift cards to entry-level government employees. "I buy everything your field office can't afford," raps the employee in the video. "I'll never be under OIG investigation."
OIG refers to the Office of the Inspector General, who originally looked into the GSA's spending on a 2010 training conference held in Las Vegas. His report found the federal agency spent $822,000 on the event [.... ] The revelations prompted GSA Administrator Martha Johnson to resign this week [.... ]