The first of several planned congressional hearings concerning a General Services Administration’s costly conference saw House members grilling current and former GSA officials about the spending scandal and a key figure in the controversy cite his Fifth Amendment right six times.
The focus of the April 16 hearing, held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was a GSA Public Buildings Service (PBS) conference in October 2010 that cost $822,000. In an inspector general’s report released on April 2, the GSA was blasted for “excessive and wasteful” spending on the event. That day, the GSA Administrator Martha Johnson dismissed PBS chief Robert Peck and another top agency official; she then resigned.
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