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“The law requires periodic audits by inspectors general, like this one, specifically to keep on top of charge card abuse and hold agencies accountable for implementing the required internal controls.”Crooked Admiral
The official who spoke to Politico.com stressed that the audit was a broad review of credit card transactions, as opposed to the behavior of individuals, and so no jobs were on the line at this point. It’s more likely that certain departments, where such behavior is most prevalent, will merely receive a stern talking to.
Of course, this is not the first, or likely the last, time that top military brass have had their wrists slapped for inappropriate gambling shenanigans. Last year, Admiral , formerly second-in-command at US Strategic Command, was fired for attempting to pass off fake chips in the only one of his local casinos from which he d not already been barred, the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Giardina initially told police he had bought the chips from a man in the restroom, before revising his account of the incident in a military court, saying he had merely “found” them in a stall in the restrooms. But a DNA test suggested he may have actually created the chips himself “using stickers and glue.”
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