The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82604   Message #1513704
Posted By: heric
01-Jul-05 - 11:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homeland $ecure
Subject: BS: Homeland $ecure
Spending in the Name Of Homeland Security

$377,273.75 in unsubstantiated long-distance phone calls, $514,201 to rent tents that flooded in a rainstorm, $4.4 million in "no show" fees for job candidates who did not appear for tests.

· $5.4 million claimed for nine months' salary for the chief executive of an "event logistics" firm that received a contract before it was incorporated and went out of business after the contract ended.

· $1,180 for 20 gallons of Starbucks Coffee -- $3.69 a cup -- at the Santa Clara Marriott in California.

· $526.95 for one phone call from the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago to Iowa City.