If spending nearly $823,000 for General Services Administration employees to take a taxpayer-funded vacation in Las Vegas wasn’t enough, the agency now finds itself under scrutiny for paying more than $1 million in bonuses to 84 employees since 2008.
Each employee received an average of eight bonuses, including Jeff Neely, a former GSA regional commissioner behind the Oct. 2010 Las Vegas conference, reportedly received a $9,000 bonus according to Bloomberg.
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“It doesn’t pass the smell test to be awarding huge bonuses in taxpayer dollars to officials who are being investigated, or have already been found responsible, for fraud and waste of those very taxpayer dollars,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said in the statement.
According to McCaskill’s office, one program operations officer under Inspector General investigation received $38,664 in bonuses since 2008, and another senior GSA executive received more than $20,000 in bonuses despite being reprimanded for interfering with a investigation by the GSA Inspector General.
