Remember the furor over $16 muffins? That's nothing compared with the $100-plus per-person reception that featured 400 pieces of $4.75 "Petit Beef Wellington," 400 "Mini Monte Cristo Sandwiches" at $5 each and 1,000 sushi rolls for $7 apiece, as well as other "excessive and wasteful" spending at a General Services Administration conference in the Las Vegas area in 2010.
Comment on Vegas spending spree prompts resignation at federal agency
By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
Mon, 04/02/2012 - 4:17pm
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