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Postal Employees Charge 'Adult Entertainment,' Plane Tickets For Family To Gov't Credit Card

Ryan J. Reilly | February 14, 2011, 9:46AM

One Postal Service employee used his government travel card at adult entertainment establishments more than 50 times. Another paid for an Apple computer and his mortgage. Three others purchased airfare tickets (including tickets to Spain and Italy) for family and friends.

That's all according to a Postal Service Inspector General report issued last week on non-compliance with travel policies. The travel cards are actually placed in the employees names, so it isn't clear whether the government paid for the expenditures in question. But regulations do clearly state that "employees may not use their official government travel card for personal business," according to the report.

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Topics: Inspector General Report, Susan Collins, Tom Carper, U.S. Postal Service

Republican National Committee

On RNC Census Mailer, Dem Rep. Slams 'Party Of Loopholes'

Zachary Roth | April 27, 2010, 4:40PM

RNC Chairman Michael Steele

The RNC hasn't elaborated -- despite several requests -- on its view that its misleading "Census" fundraising mailer is legal, despite a recently passed law that aimed to ban such missives.

But it may hang on the fact that the law, which passed last month, only forbids mailers with the word "census" on the outside of the envelope -- while in the RNC's mailer, "Census" is visible through the envelope's window.

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Topics: Carolyn Maloney, Census, Darrell Issa, Fundraising, Michael Steele, Republican National Committee, U.S. Postal Service

Republican National Committee

Postal Service Probing RNC 'Census' Mailer

Zachary Roth | April 27, 2010, 4:04PM

RNC Chairman Michael Steele

The U.S. Postal Service is investigating the RNC's deceptive "Census" fundraising mailer, a spokesman tells TPMmuckraker.

Last night, Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Postmaster General John Potter, urging him to probe whether the mailer violates a law passed last month aimed at banning such mailers.