GSA

Report Details Overspending That Led To GSA Head's Resignation

Ryan J. Reilly | April 3, 2012, 6:30AM

The inspector general report that led to the resignation of the head of the General Services Administration detailed vast overspending at a 2010 conference near Las Vegas, including a $75,000 team building exercise in which participants constructed bicycles.

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Topics: Darrell Issa, Elijah Cummings, GSA, Joe Lieberman, Las Vegas, Martha Johnson, Robert A. Peck, Stephen Leeds

Detroit

Indictment: Kilpatrick Demanded Private Flights To Vegas For City Contracts

Rachel Slajda | December 17, 2010, 10:31AM

According to the federal racketeering indictment that came down Wednesday, former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick demanded a lot in exchange for a city contract. One of those things was, allegedly, all-expense-paid trips to swanky locales like Las Vegas via the private jets of city contractors.

In one case, according to the indictment, Kilpatrick had a couple of top aides inform the owner of a company that managed millions of Detroit pension funds that Kilpatrick wasn't happy the contractor had supported his opponent in the 2005 election. So the unnamed contractor allegedly flew Kilpatrick and five of the mayor's friends to Vegas for a golf trip in April 2007 -- a golf trip that included hotels, meals, limo service, concert tickets and massages -- to the tune of $16,000.

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Topics: Corruption, Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, Las Vegas, Michigan, Private jet

John Ensign

What Happens In Vegas: Senate Investigators Interview Witnesses In Ensign Probe

Zachary Roth | May 7, 2010, 9:31AM

The Senate Ethics committee's investigation of the John Ensign sex-and-lobbying scandal is in full swing.

Investigators for the panel were holed up in a Las Vegas hotel yesterday, where they interviewed several key figures in the case, KLAS-TV reports. A woman "who looks just like" Cynthia Hampton, Ensign's former mistress, was seen entering the hotel, accompanied by her husband's lawyer, Dan Albregts, says the station. She stayed for two hours.

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Topics: Doug Hampton, John Ensign, Justice Department, Las Vegas, NRSC, R&R Partners, Republicans, Senate Ethics Committee, Sig Rogich

Eric Massa

Ex-Volunteer: I Shared A Hotel Room With Massa -- And Nothing Happened

Justin Elliott | March 10, 2010, 2:55PM

A former campaign volunteer for Eric Massa tells TPMmuckraker that Massa asked to share his room at the 2006 YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas -- but "nothing happened that was more interesting than snoring."

"It was reasons of economy," Howard Park, an independent bookseller in Washington, tells us. Park was at the time a netroots activist who was helping Massa on his ultimately unsuccessful 2006 campaign for Congress.

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Topics: Eric Massa, Las Vegas, Wesley Clark, YearlyKos