An audit of the Pentagon has revealed that revelry seems to be area of the culture in America’s Defense Department headquarters.

Pentagon workers can think about themselves totally busted this for funding gambling sprees and ‘adult entertainment services’ via their government-issued credit cards week.

An Defense that is internal Department, soon to be published, unearthed that both military and civilian employees had been responsible of utilizing the credit cards at gambling enterprises, and for procuring the solutions of ‘escort agencies’ in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

These employees presumably preferred to utilize official work cards rather than individual ones in order to hide the illicit transactions from spouses and significant others. What could fail?

A Pentagon official emphasized to Politico.com, however, that the government did not (necessarily) foot the bill while its employees made whoopee. Card holders are needed to spend their own credit card debt and then make expense submissions for a part of the bill, the official said.

Sex Sells, But Did the Pentagon Reimburse for It?

Nonetheless, the likelihood is the Pentagon has, sooner or later, unwittingly taken care of sex, as well as stumping up the cash for the odd lousy blackjack session or two.

In fact, it is estimated that forbidden credit card transactions are priced at the us government a huge selection of millions of dollars each year. A report by the federal Government Accountability Office recently found that ‘abuse of government issued credit cards has been a growing challenge in recent years.’

Senator Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa], who introduced the Government credit Card Abuse Prevention Act in 2012, stated this week that he was alarmed during the revelations, but hoped that his legislative efforts had paved the means for the internal audit.

‘I’m interested to understand report to see more about what is being done, right and incorrect, at DoD to prevent punishment,’ he stated. ‘What I hope is that my reforms that became legislation have been implemented well and that agencies and auditors are using the reforms to catch problems.

‘The law requires audits that is periodic inspectors general, like this one, specifically to carry on top of credit card abuse and hold agencies accountable for implementing the necessary internal controls.’

Crooked Admiral

The state whom spoke to Politico.com stressed that the review was a review that is broad of card transactions, in contrast towards the behavior of individuals, and thus no jobs were exactly in danger at this point. It’s much more likely that particular departments, where behavior that is such most prevalent, will merely be given a stern talking to.

Needless to say, this is simply not the first, or likely the last, time that top army brass have had their wrists slapped for inappropriate gambling shenanigans. This past year, Admiral Timothy Giardina, formerly second-in-command at US Strategic Command, was fired for trying to pass off fake potato chips in the only person of his regional 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 the man within the restroom, before revising his account of the incident in a military court, saying he previously merely ‘found’ them in a stall in the restrooms. However a DNA test suggested he might have actually developed the potato chips himself ‘using stickers and glue.’