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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What Recession? Justice Department Spent Nearly Half A Million On Refreshments

If the 2008 financial crisis caused the nation to tighten its belt, the Justice Department didn’t get the memo.

The federal agency spent about $490,000 on food and beverages at 10 conferences, including $16 apiece for muffins, more than a dollar an ounce for coffee and $32 per person on snacks, according to a new report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.


The half-a-million-dollar tab represented more than 10 percent of the $4.4 million total cost of the events that were held between October 2007 and September 2009.


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Let them eat cake"

Anonymous said...

9:05
The cake was for the masses. The government is eating expensive cake!

Anonymous said...

And guess WHO paid for it!?

Anonymous said...

9:05, and 9:33
When Marie Antoinette used the term "Let them eat cake", the term cake meant something very different than it does now.
Cake was the term used to describe what you would find at a sludge farm.

mack said...

WELCOME TO AMERICA OH by the way we need to raise TAXES again SORRY..BUT please vote for me again and I will fix it YEA RIGHT ....Right Mike ??