June 11, 2004
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Report: Pentagon wasted $100M on unused airline tickets
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Department spent an estimated $100 million for airline tickets that were not used over a six-year period and failed to seek refunds even though the tickets were reimbursable, congressional investigators say.
The department compounded the problem by reimbursing employee claims for tickets bought by the Pentagon.
A traveler submitted a dozen vouchers claiming some $6,800 in airline tickets the department bought. When notified the department was refusing payments on five of the six claims, the traveler submitted six additional claims. DOD initiated action to collect money for three of the claims but could find no records of the other three.
The Pentagon bought 68,000 first-class or business-class airline seats for employees who should have flown coach.
Comments (1)
If they were going to waste them like that, they could have thrown them my way. I would really have appreciated them. I would even have been willing to pay for the name change.
And crap, about Iran.
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