Corruption Still Exists in Our Government Agencies
Six top officials from Lexington Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport lost their city issued credit cards, according to an article released by the Associated press. This was discovered that they had charged $4500 at a Texas strip club. This came after executive director Michael Gobb had charged around $200,000 on travel and other expenses in the past two years. Furthermore, it is also believed that Gobb was one of the strip club attendees as well.
I have never heard of any government jobs that allow you to use your credit card at strip clubs. Never mind the salesman that takes their clients to the clubs to close a big deal, these guys were out to entertain themselves. How did the executive director get away with spending so much money for so long? This does not make sense to me. Then again, many things are not making sense these days. This outing took place in 2003. Why does it take so long for these things to be found out? I guess it must have been easy to get away with such things when the executive director is involved. $4500 spent among 6 guys equates to $750 each person. How many drinks and table dances does this add up to, I wonder? They must have had the VIP room all to themselves all night. It all sounds like a great night with fact that they spend taxpayer dollars.
This does not come as a surprise to me. There are a lot of corrupt individuals out there in all-economic sectors including the government. I recently heard about an incident involving some inspectors working for the FDA. They were in cahoots with a fumigation company who was doing work for the government. In addition, all this was taking place at a US Customs import lot. Certain commodities are supposed to be fumigated before entering the United States. These guys were falsifying documents stating that the goods had been fumigated when in reality nothing had been done. Then they would turn around and charge the importer (who is responsible for paying) and split the money.
The Lexington City employees also must have been in cahoots with each other. There is supposed to be a system of checks and balances within our city or federal government departments. However, it seems that these checks and balances do not always work like they should. A $4500 trip to a strip-club on taxpayer money should be made a crime. These guys should all be made to pay back what they spent plus interest.
Six top officials from Lexington Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport lost their city issued credit cards, according to an article released by the Associated press. This was discovered that they had charged $4500 at a Texas strip club. This came after executive director Michael Gobb had charged around $200,000 on travel and other expenses in the past two years. Furthermore, it is also believed that Gobb was one of the strip club attendees as well.
I have never heard of any government jobs that allow you to use your credit card at strip clubs. Never mind the salesman that takes their clients to the clubs to close a big deal, these guys were out to entertain themselves. How did the executive director get away with spending so much money for so long? This does not make sense to me. Then again, many things are not making sense these days. This outing took place in 2003. Why does it take so long for these things to be found out? I guess it must have been easy to get away with such things when the executive director is involved. $4500 spent among 6 guys equates to $750 each person. How many drinks and table dances does this add up to, I wonder? They must have had the VIP room all to themselves all night. It all sounds like a great night with fact that they spend taxpayer dollars.
This does not come as a surprise to me. There are a lot of corrupt individuals out there in all-economic sectors including the government. I recently heard about an incident involving some inspectors working for the FDA. They were in cahoots with a fumigation company who was doing work for the government. In addition, all this was taking place at a US Customs import lot. Certain commodities are supposed to be fumigated before entering the United States. These guys were falsifying documents stating that the goods had been fumigated when in reality nothing had been done. Then they would turn around and charge the importer (who is responsible for paying) and split the money.
The Lexington City employees also must have been in cahoots with each other. There is supposed to be a system of checks and balances within our city or federal government departments. However, it seems that these checks and balances do not always work like they should. A $4500 trip to a strip-club on taxpayer money should be made a crime. These guys should all be made to pay back what they spent plus interest.
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Credit Card / Financial news blog post by Todd Holliday at 8:22 PM 