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Was beautiful and the people there could not have been nicer. heather: see, you brought pleasantness with you. gregg: may not last. heather: yet another controversy cropping up for the general services administration. employers sometimes ask employees to work from home to save money. but gsa officials working from home somehow managed to rack up three quarters of a million dollars in travel expenses. even regional commissioner jeff neily was surprised about this. you may remember him as the man who used taxpayer dollars to plan an $800,000 conference in 2008 where he took this lovely hot tub pick. molly henneberg has details from our washington bureau with the latest on all this. hi. hi. $750,000 in travel expenses by work at home employees of the general services administration, or gsa. that s what new documents show and now the congressional committee with oversight to the federal work force is demanding more information. republican congressman darryl issa wrote, quote, the a ....
We learned 95 officials decided to work from home rapid wrapped up more than 3507,000 in travel expenses over the course of nine months. former gsa regional commissioner seen here in las vegas hot tub when he resigned following the conference scandal. newly uncovered e-mails show that he was aware of these travel charges back in 2011. molly henneberg is live in washington with more. molly: yes, jeff neally was aware of the charges. according to dophz. the documents include e-mails from him last fall when he was alerted to the travel expenses of those work from home gsa employees. he wrote an e-mail to a colleague, omg h, is a fine mess we have gotten ourselves in to. he sent details to other colleagues, this will take your breath away. don t share further. ....
Colleague in an e-mail, provided to congressional committees saying, quote, omg, well, this is a fine mess we ve gotten ourselves into. and in another e-mail to colleagues said, quote, this will take your breath away. don t share further. the 95 gsa employees spent that hundreds of thousands of dollars over a course of nine months in 2010 and 2011. heather? heather: thank you very much, molly henneberg reporting live from washington. thanks. gregg: fox news alert. a stand-off in dallas, texas between police, including the swat team and a man who is just outside a bank. here is what we know. somebody was either entering the bank or leaving the bank. this, by the way, is the northwest highway between turtle creek and hillcrest, partly shut down. somebody noticed a man slumped over in a car at the bank. the fire department got there, started talking to the man. ....
People have a right to know that federal bureaucrats who enjoy the benefits of the virtual work are eligible and responsible stewards of the taxpayer dollars that support the program. acting gsa head appointed in april has promised a top to bottom review of the agency spending and in response to this latest gsa revelation, has ordered, quote, an extensive review of our agency s operations, which includes our travel policy and staff deployment. our agency remains committed to eliminating any excessive spending and promoting government efficiency. so why might overspending and gsa sound familiar together? possibly because of images like this one of now former gsa executive jeff neily. he was heading up a gsa conference in 2010 in also grace that cost taxpayers $823,000. it came to light this spring. last fall, according to the documents, when neeley was alerted to the expenses racked up by stay at home gsa employees, he wrote to a ....
Gun battles erupting leaving nine people killed. more than 20 others injured. clashes in the lebanese city in tlipoli lasted throughout night and raising serious fears that the violence will spread across the region. all of this as human rights groups report a new round of shelling in hula. that is where a massacre claimed hundred lives and dozens of them were children. they are leading u.n. secretary-general that syria is sfleipg all out war. what will be stopping it now. we will be putting that to assistant dik cheney. heather: congress is investigating the scandal at gsa after they made headlines for spending nearly one million dollars oh a lavish conference in las vegas. ....