Scandal: Secret A.T.F. Account Paid for $21,000 Nascar Suite and Las Vegas Trip

[Aim1]

Wonder if anything will happen. Most likely not. And I just read that the H.U.D. discovered that they have misplaced $500 billion dollars yesterday. And you wonder where all of our money goes.




https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/us/politics/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-atf.html

Secret A.T.F. Account Paid for $21,000 Nascar Suite and Las Vegas Trip

By MATT APUZZO
APRIL 11, 2017

WASHINGTON — Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used a secret, off-the-books bank account to rent a $21,000 suite at a Nascar race, take a trip to Las Vegas and donate money to the school of one of the agents’ children, according to records and interviews.

Agents also used the account to finance undercover operations around the country, despite laws prohibiting government officials from using private money to supplement their budgets, according to current and former government officials and others familiar with the account.

The revelations highlight the lax oversight at the A.T.F. that allowed agents and informants to spend millions while avoiding the normal accounting process. The Justice Department’s inspector general, who is investigating the secret account, criticized the A.T.F. recently for mismanagement and said the agency did not know how many informants it had or how much they were paid.

 

[hdwhit]

Aim1 wrote:
And I just read that the H.U.D. discovered that they have misplaced $500 billion...

Are you sure? $500 billion is nearly one-eighth of the entire Federal Budget (for FY2016).

 

[Aim1]

Are you sure? $500 billion is nearly one-eighth of the entire Federal Budget (for FY2016).

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...t-hud-for-500b-plus-in-accounting-errors.html

 

[ontarget]

No big surprise its a government agency. What else do we expect?

 

[Art Eatman]

Not about guns as guns. And THR ain't the daily bird-cage liner for trivial-level corruption.