$16 a Muffin: IG Report Finds Justice Dept. Over Spent at Conferences on Food and Beverages
By PETE YOST
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Muffins: $16 apiece. Coffee: more than a dollar an ounce. Snacks: $32 per person.
A report issued Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general found excessive spending on food and beverages in an audit of 10 department conferences.
Justice spent about $490,000 on food and beverages at the conferences — more than 10 percent of the $4.4 million total cost of the events.
In response, the Justice Department concurred with the IG’s recommendations to more closely monitor costs.
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Posted: 9/20/11 at 1:49 PM under News Story.
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Comment from CalFed
Time September 21, 2011 at 12:47 am
Read the report..at one conference, the Department paid $5.57 per can of soda and $.65 PER OUNCE for coffee.
Kinda reminds me of all the crap that the Democrats heaped on the Kellogg, Brown and Root subsidiary of Halliburton for charging $45/case (less than $2/can) for soda delivered in Iraq. And in a war zone for, Christ’s sake.