The government’s banking insurance agency promised Friday to take “appropriate disciplinary action” after a golf outing that purportedly featured drunken bureaucrats inducing women to bare their breasts and provide lap dances.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. spokesman David Barr released a statement Friday saying that FDIC investigators had finished interviewing staff from the agency’s 274-member information technology section and would discipline offenders “consistent with law and established procedures.”
“Nothing has been done [yet] because the investigation is continuing,” Barr told The Examiner in a telephone interview.
Several top officials took the day off May 22 to attend an outing at Penderbrook Golf Club in Fairfax.
Sources report that two women at the outing were persuaded to remove their blouses by a top staff member.
Barr refused to comment on the sources’ description of the two women as “cart girls” who serve beer and other refreshments around the course.
According to the sources, the women exposed themselves for a $10 tip and later provided lap dances for men behind Penderbrook’s clubhouse during an awards ceremony.
“There are several different versions of the event,” Barr told The Examiner.
The event wasn’t officially sanctioned by the FDIC, but it was advertised around the information technology section, Barr said.
Penderbrook is run by a company called Arnold Palmer Golf Management. Its 19th Hole restaurant and bar features music, dancing and low-cost alcohol.
It offers a “Twilight” package that includes golf and drinks. A woman who answered the phone at Penderbrook’s pro shop refused to say whether the course employs cart girls.
Course general manager Steve Zarnick has not returned calls seeking comment.
Anyone with information on the FDIC should call Bill Myers at 202-459-4956 or e-mail [email protected].
