{"id":5905,"date":"2011-09-20T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2011-09-20T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T00:57:37","slug":"living-it-up-at-the-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"Living It Up At The Justice Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<div style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Crackerjack2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A picture of an old Cracker Jack box\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/6\/6a\/Crackerjack2.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of an old Cracker Jack box\" width=\"166\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/20\/what-recession-justice-department-spent-nearly-half-million-on-refreshments\/\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0is reporting today about some of the spending for Justice Department events from\u00a0October 2007 and September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Justice Department implemented a new conference policy in April 2008 after a previous audit found wasteful spending at events held between October 2004 and September 2006. Among the examples were $53-per-person lunches and a $60,000 reception that served Swedish meatballs at $5 a piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess the new policy was not overly successful. The article further reports:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>In 2008 and 2009, the department hosted or participated in 1,832 conferences costing $121 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>At a Washington, D.C., legal conference, the department spent $4,200 on 250 muffins &#8212; or more than $16 apiece, the report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>At another conference, the department&#8217;s Office on Violence Against Women spent $65 per person at a lunch for 65 people. Coffee cost more than $1 an ounce. A snack break at the same conference cost $32 per person for Cracker Jack, popcorn and candy bars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think I want to go into the business of catering for the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4cb76201-e633-40f3-b668-844c89e4b1f7\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u00a0is reporting today about some of the spending for Justice Department events from\u00a0October 2007 and September 2009. 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