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Offline Chris_

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GSA executive fired after Las Vegas scandal ordered to get his job back

The General Services Administration was ordered this week to reinstate a senior executive who lost his job last year amid revelations of lavish spending at a Las Vegas conference.

GSA officials had told Paul Prouty that he “knew or should have known about the questionable and excessive expenditures” that embarrassed the Obama administration when they were revealed last year. But the agency failed to prove that the career civil servant in charge of federal buildings in the Rocky Mountain region was guilty of misconduct, the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled.

The merit board also awarded Prouty, 64, 11 months of back pay. Administrative judge Patricia Miller wrote in a 48-page ruling that because Prouty did not attend the four-day conference in 2010 and was not heavily involved in planning it, he should not have been fired.

“We are disappointed with the . . . ruling,” the GSA said in a statement. The agency “has taken strong action against those officials whom we believe were responsible and will continue to do so where appropriate.” Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini, appointed by President Obama to clean up the agency, “has taken significant steps over the past year to improve internal controls and oversight,” the statement said.
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Figures  :mad:  No one is held responsible for anything anymore, least of all, with the people's money.
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Figures  :mad:  No one is held responsible for anything anymore...

You'll be held responsible if a bureaucracy says you have to fill in a hole left by a falling tree but another bureaucracy says you're guilty of destroying wetlands.
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You'll be held responsible if a bureaucracy says you have to fill in a hole left by a falling tree but another bureaucracy says you're guilty of destroying wetlands.

Yet they say the government is broke. :mental:
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Another reason why public service unions need to be broken up.

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Put his desk on the loading dock and call it his new office.  :-)
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Put his desk on the loading dock and call it his new office.  :-)

Nah he belongs down in the basement...and take his stapler away from him too.
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