DOJ Says They've Debunked The '$16 Muffin' Myth

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/doj_says_theyve_debunked_the_16_muffin_myth.php

The Justice Department says their Inspector General's conclusion that they paid $16 per muffin at a legal conference in 2009 is, pardon the pun, half baked.

"Under a complete accounting of the services provided for the Executive Office for Immigration Review conference, it is clear that the muffins did not cost $16," DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona said in a statement.

"The abbreviated banquet checks did not reflect all of the food and services provided," Talamona said in an email to reporters. "The package consisted of food, beverages, staff services and function space, including a 450-seat ballroom and more than a dozen workshop and breakout rooms each of the five days of the conference."

That jives with what the hotel said about the package, which had come under criticism from Sen. Chuck Grassley and lead the White House to crack down on conference spending.


Hotel: Fruit And Drinks Came With Those '$16 Muffins'
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/hinton_fruit_and_drinks_came_with_those_16_muffins.php?ref=fpb

[ClassWarrior]

1. A White House crackdown on conference spending? Why do they constantly fall for...

...the shit the Rape-Publicans shovel?

NGU.

[hedgehog]

16. It's one way to kill a story dead. Most of these issues are in the

"Are you still beating your wife" vein. They are very hard to counter without giving legs to the original story.

Besides, right now the President wants everyone focused on the Jobs Bill, not the muffin bill!

[whosinpower]

2. Don't you find it odd

Trillions go missing in the Pentagon unaccounted for....and crickets are heard.....

And suddenly muffins are under attack as being overvalued?

[Scuba]

3. Curious, until you learn who controls the media. n/t

[jberryhill]

4. Has anyone asked the muffin man?

[PeaceNikki]

6. Do you know the muffin man?

[jberryhill]

8. The muffin man?

[PeaceNikki]

9. Fuck. I have earwormed myself.

x(

[jberryhill]

10. There's a clinic for that over on Drury Lane.

[Ikonoklast]

13. I am going to punch both of you in the nose.

[jberryhill]

14. What color blood do you think will come out?

[Ikonoklast]

15. Blue...

...berry.

[bengalherder]

7. He thought he was a man, but he was a muffin. n/t

[jberryhill]

12. reaching for an oversized chrome spoon he gathers an Intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants

[Rex]

5. They worry about $16 muffins while the MIC loses trillions.

The JD is a pathetic joke.

[jberryhill]

11. David Vitter Pays A LOT More Than That For Muffin