WASHINGTON — House committees investigating the scandal-plagued
General Services Administration released an e-mail and letter yesterday
showing that the organizer of a lavish Las Vegas conference escaped
disciplinary action and even got a $9,000 bonus.
“Expenses for a
clown suit, bikes, tuxedos and mind reader don’t really lend themselves
to a claim of a substantive conference,” Deputy Administrator Susan
Brita wrote in an e-mail to underling Robert Peck in July.
Brita
complained that Peck had failed to adequately discipline the regional
administrator in charge of the Las Vegas conference, Jeff Neely, by
sending him a letter that called the conference “a managerial lapse.”
“Jeff is a seasoned SES [senior executive service] who is expected to
display the higher standards of common sense and prudent financial
management,” Brita wrote Peck. “He did neither. Sorry, but your letter
[to Neely] is not even a slap on the wrist.” (Continues)
No comments:
Post a Comment