RSSEXCLUSIVE: Legal-aid agency hit for wasteful spending
From: The Washington Times | July 28, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: During the worst economic downturn in decades, the federal program that provides free legal help to impoverished Americans has spent tax dollars on a decorative natural-stone wall, no-bid contracts for consultants, alcohol for a congressional party and more than 100 casino hotel rooms that were never occupied, government documents show. The Legal Services Corp. – which stirred national controversy a few years back by paying for limousines, first-class airfare and $14 Death by Chocolate pastries for its executives – has created new symbols of excessive spending in recent months, according to federal audit reports and congressional correspondence obtained by …
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