The Department of Defense’s Inspector General revealed a little more than a year ago that DOD employees used government credit cards for millions of dollars in personal charges, including for visits to casinos, bars and strip clubs. The IG this week announced that taxpayers are still footing the bill for similar expenditures.
We reported in May 2015:
According to a recent report from the Department of Defense’s Inspector General, at least a few million untouchable military dollars have made their way into the panties of strippers or were lost on craps tables.
The report examined spending logged on DOD credit cards issued for government-related travel. The IG report found that the agency logged a total of $3.4 billion on 20 million transactions over a one-year period between July 2013 and June 2014.
Out of that, some $3.2 million was spent at casinos and just under $1 million on various personal expenses, including 646 cardholders’ charges at strip clubs totaling $100,000. The casino charges were made up of 4,437 charges made by 2,636 cardholders.
According to the audit, the Air Force was the biggest sources of casino and strip club charges on government issued cards with more than $400,000 in charges. The Army came in second, tallying $350,000 in such charges.
More than a year later, the IG has followed up on its investigation only to find that the DOD hasn’t taken appropriate steps to curb the taxpayer abuse.
“We determined that DoD management (cardholder’s commander or supervisor) and travel card officials did not take appropriate action when notified by the DoD OIG, during the previous audit, that cardholders had potentially misused their travel card,” the IG writes. “Specifically, DoD management and travel card officials did not perform adequate reviews for the cardholders reviewed and did not take action to eliminate additional misuse.”
Judicial Watch, which initially reported the IG’s latest findings, noted that DOD officials remain unlikely to correct the problem: “It’s astounding that more than a year after this atrocious behavior was exposed by a federal investigation, no action has been taken. Worse yet, it appears that little will change because the Pentagon’s Deputy Secretary for Military Personnel Policy seems dismissive, noting that personal use identified in the report amounted to less than 0.04 percent of the total travel card spending and less than 0.03 percent of the total transaction volume.”
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