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Federal building, two blocks away from the white house and empty for 15 years and starting an investigation of gsa. it is the biggest property owner in the world. and it holds all of the properties and buildings and trust for the american people. we knew that the administrative expenses soared 300 percent and tried to find out where. and came with the inspector general and other information gathered to see the conferences that were wasting millions of taxpayer dollars and the latest one, those w...

Ex-traf dpant travel or conferences it i going to be affecting the companys bottom line. and individuals who take advantage of pretty rare in the government for someone to abuse taxpayer dollars and end up in trouble. in fact in most cases the incentive for agencies because of the budget process, is to spend every penny and sometimes more that congress prepare rates. >> they tried to do everything they could to cover up the october 2010 las vegas fiasco. now another conference, one-day, more tha...

One day conference, quarter of a million dollars. $104,000 to a consultant for one day. $20,000 spent on drumsticks. now there are 35,000 on picture frames. we think unfortunately theyre dribbling this information out. first we saw las vegas. then we saw virginia. and now were told there may be as many as more than 70 conferences were going to have to look at. rick: talk to us about your investigators and the kind of cooperation theyre getting from folks at the gsa. of course weve been talking a...

21st century kum ba yah. >> bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. its costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? >> i guess its supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, lets all get together, you know, type of, yeah. >> motivational stuff? >> who knows? i cant answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? >> yeah. >> $28,000...

>> bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. its costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? >> i guess its supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, lets all get together, you know, type of, yeah. >> motivational stuff? >> who knows? i cant answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? >> yeah. >> $28,000, little over, for 4,000 ...

>> bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. its costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? >> i guess its supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, lets all get together, you know, type of, yeah. >> motivational stuff? >> who knows? i cant answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? >> yeah. >> $28,000, little over, for 4,000 ...

Bill: so, sir, when does your hearing begin? also, well, youre looking at whether or not federal land can be managed and administered by private companies instead of the federal government. how would that work? >> well, the question ive been asking, i mean this has been such a abuse of the civil and abuse of the taxpayer dollars. the question ive been asking is, can we billionish gsa all together? show me why you have to be in existence? show me how you are saving money for the taxpayers. and sh...

Where they spent $270,000 in 2010. even after the president issued an executive order saying no more conferences they still kept doing it. on a annual basis theyre spending quarter of a million a year and it has to stop. bill: this is what we found as you watch the video and well slide this graphic on the screen. $268,000 spent on the one-day conference you say is now annual. $20,000 on the drumsticks screen right. $35,000 for picture frames and $8500 appearance fee by agent x. whoa. so your nex...

Taxpayers almost a million dollars. this is a one day awards ceremony and cost only $270,000. it was held at a suburban washington hotel. there were no clowns, mind readers or losses in the bath tub with unmatching wine glasses. it did feature a violinist and guitarist and $25,000 worth of drum sticks. i have two here. these were are just a gift. and $25,000 of picture frames given to the guests. now, that the gsa has gotten caught with its pants down again it is insisting under the new gsa lead...

Taxpayers almost a million dollars. this is a one day awards ceremony and cost only $270,000. it was held at a suburban washington hotel. there were no clowns, mind readers or losses in the bath tub with unmatching wine glasses. it did feature a violinist and guitarist and $25,000 worth of drum sticks. i have two here. these were are just a gift. and $25,000 of picture frames given to the guests. now, that the gsa has gotten caught with its pants down again it is insisting under the new gsa lead...