Review Reveals Taxpayer Dollars Went To Fraudlent Pleasure Trips

Review Reveals Taxpayer Dollars Went To Fraudlent Pleasure Trips

From an extra day's hotel stay so military officials can fit in a round of golf to federal workers who fly business class instead of coach, questionable travel expenditures have remained a persistent problem across the federal government in recent years.

At the State Department, for instance, nearly 80 percent of the more than $300,000 in airfare reviewed at one little-known office in fiscal 2007 and 2008 went to pay for business-class airline tickets, and many of those purchases violated federal travel policy.

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