Grassley probes credit-card charges for Katrina relief
‘Federal employees helping Katrina victims charged more than $39 million on government credit cards for disaster relief items. Congressional investigators want to make sure the taxpayers got a good deal.
And a senator, citing past abuse, wants to know whether anyone used the cards for holiday shopping.
Many of the goods, which included $60,639 for sleeping bags and $713 for four 27-inch televisions, were bought at retail rather than cheaper volume prices following the Aug. 29 storm, according to federal records.’
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