An audit of this Pentagon has revealed that revelry appears to be the main culture in America’s Defense Department head office.

Pentagon employees can consider themselves totally busted this week for funding gambling sprees and ‘adult entertainment solutions’ via their government-issued credit cards.

An Defense that is internal Department, soon to be published, discovered that both military and civilian employees had been guilty of utilizing the credit cards at gambling enterprises, as well as for procuring the services of ‘escort agencies’ in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

These employees presumably preferred to make use of work that is official instead than individual ones so as to hide the illicit transactions from spouses and significant others. What could get wrong?

A Pentagon official emphasized to Politico.com, However, that the national federal government didn’t (necessarily) foot the bill while its employees made whoopee. Card holders are required to spend their credit that is own card and then make expense submissions for the part of the bill, the official said.

Sex Sells, But Did the Pentagon Reimburse because of it?

Nonetheless, the chance is that the Pentagon has, sooner or later, unwittingly covered sex, because well as stumping up the money for the odd lousy session that is blackjack two.

Each year in fact, it is estimated that forbidden credit card transactions cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars. A report by the federal Government Accountability Office recently found that ‘abuse of government issued credit cards is a growing challenge in recent years.’

Senator Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa], who introduced the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act in 2012, said this week that he was alarmed at the revelations, but hoped that his legislative efforts had paved the means for the interior review.

‘I’m interested to understand report to see more about what’s being done, right and wrong, at DoD to prevent abuse,’ he stated. ‘What I hope is that my reforms that became law have been implemented well and that agencies and auditors are utilizing the reforms to catch problems.

‘The law requires periodic audits by inspectors general, similar to this one, specifically to keep on top of credit card abuse and hold agencies responsible for implementing the desired internal controls.’

Crooked Admiral

The official who spoke to Politico.com stressed that the review was a review that is broad of card deals, as opposed to your behavior of individuals, so no jobs were exactly in danger at this time. It’s more likely that particular departments, where such behavior is most prevalent, will merely get a stern talking to.

Of course, this isn’t the first, or likely the last, time that top brass that is military had their wrists slapped for inappropriate gambling shenanigans. This past year, Admiral Timothy Giardina, formerly second-in-command at US Strategic Command, was fired for trying to pass off fake potato chips in the only one of his regional casinos from which he’d not already been barred, the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Giardina initially told police he had bought the chips from a man into the restroom, before revising his account associated with incident in a military court, saying he previously merely ‘found’ them in a stall in the restrooms. But a DNA test suggested he may have actually developed the chips himself ‘using stickers and glue.’