Contractor racked up thousands in dinner fees · 11 February 09
A story in today’s Columbian shows that the head of not-for-profit doing clean-up on a future park charged at least $7,422 for spendy dinners and paid his own wife $42 an hour for her administrative assistant work. Reporter Michael Andersen got a tip from an Army audit of the project, and bolstered his story with more public records by obtaining receipts the contractor had filed.
Andersen details ups and downs in spending over the course of more than two years, telling us where the dinners took place, how many shared in the food, and including telling details like this: “(The) bills showed that someone on Gage’s team permanently moved from Tanqueray gin to the more expensive Bombay Sapphire in October 2007.”
