Jeff Neely Just Refused To Answer Any Questions About The Lavish Spending Government Bureaucrats Did In Vegas

by Brett LoGiurato
Business Insider

The General Services Administration (GSA) is in its first day of hearings held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for improper spending on a series of lavish GSA conferences in Las Vegas.

As widely assumed, U.S. General Services Administration regional commissioner Jeffrey Neely just invoked his fifth amendment rights and refused to answer any questions in the committee's inquiry.

Darrell Issa, the chair of the committee, pressed Neely by saying that Neely is "uniquely positioned to help the committee understand. To that end, I must consider again to ask you to answer the questions." Still, Neely, who is on administrative leave refused.

Here is Issa's statement previewing the hearing:

"Wasteful spending is a problem that transcends multiple Administrations and multiple Congresses but it�s incumbent on the present Administration and the current Congress to mandate a culture that prevents this type of waste and mismanagement, no matter what happened before them.

"Why did it take eleven months for the Obama Administration to take meaningful action? The Inspector General briefed the Administration with details about the specific action of those responsible for gross waste, yet documents show that some political appointees believed even this year that the report could be kept private and the outrageous details dealt with quietly.

"Some of those same senior political officials approved a bonus for Jeff Neely, the regional public building commissioner who was chief organizer of the 2010 Vegas conference. In the same e-mails where senior leaders are discussing whether or not to offer Neely a bonus, they are speculating on the timing of the release of the IG�s report and the political impact it will have.

"Furthermore, if the political officials responsible for taming bureaucratic excess ignored and dismissed such flagrant and flamboyant violations of the rules, then what confidence do we have that GSA can prevent more shrewdly executed fraud and waste the future?"


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Jeff Neely Just Refused To Answer Any Questions About The Lavish Spending Government Bureaucrats Did In Vegas - Business Insider

Jeff Neely, a General Services Administration (GSA) official at the
center of a scandal over lavish government spending, declined to
answer several questions earlier this week at a congressional
hearing.

The most astounding refusal was right off the bat, when Neely
refused to give his job title.

Good grief! How corrupt do you have to be that you won't even tell
Congress your job title?

As you watch the rest of the clip, that question is answered...

Video:

Government corruption: The GSA regional commissioner isn't talking

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Alert if you see something wrong how about calling it what it is
"stealing" from taxpayer coffers, no wonder they can't balance a budget!! But wait they can always tax us more to pick up the tab...any one awake yet???