There are plenty of $16 muffins at the Justice Department, according to a bombshell audit report. The department spent millions on catering for the FBI and other agencies, running up $4.4 million in costs for just 10 conferences that were audited. Among the findings: Swedish meatballs costing $5 each. Coffee and tea that went for up to $1.03 per ounce, putting the price of an 8-ounce coffee at $8.24. Beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres costing $7.32 EACH! “DOJ had few internal controls to limit the expense of conference planning and food and beverage costs at DOJ conferences,” according to the audit.A DEA conference in Istanbul, Turkey, cost $1.2 million, while a conference for the Executive Office for Immigration Review in DC totaled $689,000, auditors found. Attendees at a conference for the Office of Violence Against Women got “Cracker Jacks, popcorn, and candy bars at a single break that cost $32 per person,” the report found. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) fumed that “$16 muffins and $600,000 for event-planning services are what make Americans cynical about government and why they are demanding change. The Justice Department appears to be blind to the economic realities our country is facing.”
Holder Is The Muffin Man! |