General Services Administration officials famously hired a mindreader at taxpayer expense to participate in a Las Vegas conference — but he might have been there for motivational speaking.
“I think he billed himself as a motivation speaker,” Inspector General Brian Miller told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “The rules do allow motivational speakers. Now if he was mindreading or entertaining, that would not be permitted,” Miller noted.
One GSA employee posted online that the mindreader was very helpful in helping “overcome my fears and release my stress so I can be a happier and more successful person.”
Rep. Brent Farenthold, R-Texas, said during the hearing today that he wished the mindreader had been called as a witness because “maybe he could tell us” what the GSA officials “were thinking” when they organized the conference.
