Smithsonian Head's Expenses 'Lavish,' Audit Says
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Lawrence M. Small, the top official at the Smithsonian Institution,  accumulated nearly $90,000 in unauthorized expenses from 2000 to 2005, including charges for chartered jet travel, his wife's trip to Cambodia, hotel rooms, luxury car service, catered staff meals and expensive gifts, according to confidential findings by the Smithsonian inspector general....
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Whitehall's sleaze watchdog is urged to launch an inquiry into MPs expenses, in the wake of recent scandals.
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Federal authorities think that nearly $50 million was stolen in an embezzlement scheme run out of the D.C. tax office, more than double the amount they had previously uncovered, four sources close to the investigation said.
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LANDOVER, Md. -- Criticized in the past for his extravagant and occasionally ill-advised spending sprees, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder had to be beaming on Sunday afternoon about the big offseason investment in his team&#39;s running game.
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Top officials at the centers have been given rich cash awards at the expense of front-line scientists, agency records show.
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A former game and fisheries director and two former game wardens are accused in indictments of misusing state funds &#151; allegations also raised in an audit that questioned the purchase of hunting gear for an African safari and use of state-owned watercraft.
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Former President Clinton made more than $10 million in paid speeches last year, according to new filings that show he and his presidential-candidate wife have at least $10 million in the bank, and may have closer to $50 million.
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The money would probably be given to agencies of which the Queen is patron, the Palace said. No figure was put on the sum but the amount was described as &quot;substantial&quot;.
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Former Smithsonian secretary Lawrence M. Small took nearly 10 weeks of vacation a year during seven years running the vast museum complex and was absent from his job 550 workdays while earning $5.7 million on outside work, according to an independent commission report to be released today.
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An inquiry determined that the trustÂs former president, with the approval of the Getty board, misspent money.
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A taxpayer who made more than $1 million had a one-in-16 chance of being audited by the IRS in the fiscal year just ended, up slightly from the year before.
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A Defense Department auditor last week criticized Army managers responsible for overseeing a giant logistical contract with Halliburton Co., saying in a memo they have not been firm enough in seeking justification for $1.8B in expenses for work in Iraq and Kuwait.
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Former president Bill Clinton, who came to the White House with modest means and left deeply in debt, has collected nearly $40 million in speaking fees over the past six years, according to interviews and financial disclosure statements filed by his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
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Spending by contestants and  supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly $4  billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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Nineteen top-tier executives at the Smithsonian Institution earned more than Vice President Cheney last year and three earned more than President Bush.
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Senior BBC executives have spent thousands of pounds on lunches, meetings and leaving dos
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Charitable funds given to the J. Paul Getty Trust were improperly used to pay the travel expenses of the foundation's former chief executive and buy artwork for retiring board members, the California attorney general said in a report Monday.