An review of this Pentagon has revealed that revelry is apparently the main culture in America’s Defense Department headquarters.

Pentagon employees can think about 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, unearthed that both military and civilian employees had been responsible of utilizing the credit cards at casinos, as well as for procuring the solutions of ‘escort agencies’ in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

These employees presumably preferred to utilize official work cards instead than individual ones so as to hide the illicit transactions from spouses and significant others. What could go wrong?

A Pentagon official emphasized to Politico.com, nevertheless, that the 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 for this?

However, the likelihood is that the Pentagon has, at some point, unwittingly paid for sex, as well as stumping up the cash for the odd lousy session that is blackjack two.

In fact, it is estimated that forbidden credit card transactions are priced at the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars every year. 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 he had been alarmed at the revelations, but hoped that his legislative efforts had paved the means for the audit that is internal.

‘I’m interested to understand report and discover more about what’s being done, appropriate and wrong, at DoD to avoid punishment,’ he said. ‘What I hope is the fact that my reforms that became legislation have been implemented well and that agencies and auditors are utilizing the reforms to catch problems.

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

Crooked Admiral

The official who spoke to Politico.com stressed that the audit was a review that is broad of card transactions, compared to the behavior of individuals, and so no jobs were at risk at this point. It’s more likely that certain 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. Last year, Admiral Timothy Giardina, formerly second-in-command at US Strategic Command, was fired for attempting to pass off chips that are fake the only one of his 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 military court, saying he previously merely ‘found’ them in a stall within the restrooms. However a DNA test suggested he might have actually produced the potato chips himself ‘using stickers and glue.’