Audit Shows Waste of U.S. Funds After Katrina
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The government wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath on iPods, dog booties, beer-making equipment and designer jackets, congressional investigators have concluded.
The purchases were made with government-issued purchase cards intended for business-related expenses by Homeland Security employees. But poor training, lax oversight and rampant confusion over what employees were allowed to buy left the department “vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse,” according to a Government Accountability Office draft report
The report was to be released Wednesday by a Senate panel.
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