An audit for the Pentagon has revealed that revelry is apparently part of the culture in America’s Defense Department headquarters.

Pentagon workers can give consideration to themselves totally busted this week for funding gambling sprees and ‘adult entertainment services’ via their government-issued credit cards.

An internal Defense Department audit, soon to be published, unearthed that both military and civilian employees had been accountable 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 use official work cards rather than individual ones in order to hide the illicit transactions from spouses and significant others. What could go wrong?

A Pentagon official emphasized to Politico.com, However, that the national government failed to (necessarily) foot the bill while its employees made whoopee. Card holders are needed to spend their credit that is own card and then make expense submissions for a portion of the bill, the official said.

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

Nevertheless, the chance is the Pentagon has, at some time, unwittingly paid for sex, because well as stumping up the cash 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 us Government Accountability Office recently found that ‘abuse of government issued credit cards has been 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 had been alarmed during the revelations, but hoped that his legislative efforts had paved the method for the interior audit.

‘I’m interested to understand report to see more about what is being done, appropriate and wrong, at DoD to prevent abuse,’ he said. ‘What I hope is my reforms that became legislation have been implemented well and that agencies and auditors are using the reforms to get problems.

‘The law requires periodic audits by inspectors general, similar to this one, specifically to keep on top of bank card abuse and hold agencies in charge of implementing the mandatory internal controls.’

Crooked Admiral

The official whom spoke to Politico.com stressed that the review was a review that is broad of card deals, as opposed to the behavior of individuals, and so no jobs were exactly in danger at this point. It’s much more likely that one departments, where behavior that is such most prevalent, will merely be given a stern talking to.

Needless to say, it is not the first, or likely the last, time that top brass that is military had their wrists slapped for improper gambling shenanigans. Last year, Admiral Timothy Giardina, formerly second-in-command at US Strategic Command, was fired for attempting to pass off fake chips in the only one of their neighborhood 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 the man within the restroom, before revising his account associated with incident in a court that is military saying he had merely ‘found’ them in a stall in the restrooms. However a DNA test suggested he might have actually developed the potato chips himself ‘using stickers and glue.’