Luxury spending found in legal program

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - The federal program that provides legal help to poor Americans turns away half of its applicants for lack of resources. But that hasn't stopped its executives from lavishing expensive meals, chauffeur-driven cars and foreign trips on themselves.

Agency documents obtained by The Associated Press detail the luxuries that executives of the Legal Services Corp. have given themselves with federal money — from $14 "Death by Chocolate" desserts to $400 chauffeured rides to locations within cab distance of their offices.

The government-funded corporation also has a spacious headquarters in Washington's tony Georgetown district — with views of the Potomac River and a rent significantly higher than other tenants in the same building.

And board members wrote themselves a policy that doubled the amount they could claim for meals compared with their staff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/legal_rich___poor

[rubberducky]

1. Unbelievable!!

When people like this are exposed, theyNEED to lose those cushy jobs that we the people are paying for.

[movonne]

3. That should happen...but not in this administration...this is considered

business as usual..

[Mnemosyne]

2. K and R Bastards. As ye' sow. n/t

[aquart]

4. Hang them in front of the office building.

That's looting, plain and simple.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Now that the congressional campaign...

I was working on has ended, I am on General Assistance. Seems there are no jobs where I live and I have no car. That these people, who are supposed to be supplying services to people like me(thank ghod I don't need them...), are living the life of the 1% just warms my heart no end.

Really. No, really.

I am so glad I have to live my life in a hamster wheel of futile and near-impossible requirements, while they have limos and eat $14.00 sundaes.

When can we bring back heads on live flaying, drawing and quartering and heads on pike poles? Are we there yet?

[bvar22]

6. Names and Pictures.

Parasites who get rich off of the misery of the poor don't deserve anonymity.

[ShockediSay]

7. Agreed

Having worked for Legal Services years ago, this is nothing like what I saw.

Howizzit DC is so corrupting?