Fifteen federal employee conferences held in 2013 at a cost of nearly $2 million weren’t reported properly by Department of Labor officials and they also misrepresented the results of their efforts to reduce travel and promotional expenses by 20 percent, according to the agency’s internal watchdog.

The conference disclosure requirement became law in 2013 following revelations of a costly 2010 event for General Services Administration officials made famous by a Facebook photograph of a smiling agency regional administrator sipping champagne in a Las Vegas bathtub.

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