Departmebt Of Defense Failed To Report Misspent Funds, Lawmakers Claim

The Defense Department has failed to properly notify Congress of hundreds of millions of dollars in misspent funds, several lawmakers wrote Tuesday in a letter to the Pentagon's chief financial officer and comptroller.
 
The letter to undersecretary of Defense Robert Hale, written by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and co-signed by 12 other senators and representatives cites violations of the Antideficiency Act totaling $817 million. The violations were identified by DoD but were never reported to Congress, the lawmakers wrote, citing reports by the DoD Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office.
 
The findings "are particularly noteworthy given that in recent testimony before Congress, you have testified that ...generally, our violations of the Antideficiency Act... are quite low, very much lower I might add, than non-defense agencies taken as a whole.'", the legislators wrote. "Further, you have indicated that how positively DoD has performed in terms of ADA violations is evidence that the Department is generally doing well on financial management."
 
The violations were related to budgets in 2005 and 2008, according to a statement from Carper's office.

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