Extra credit: charge it to Uncle Sam!(Citings) (Brief Article)

• Author: Sanchez, Julian

NOTE TO embezzlers: An April report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) suggests that if you want to get away with ripping off your employer, you should consider a job in government. An audit of charge cards issued to federal employees found the cards were routinely abused, and the abusers were seldom punished.

Government employees splurged on such items as a $500 Bose radio, designer Louis Vuitton folios, Coach briefcases, $200 Lego robots, cigars, Oakley sunglasses, and a mounted deer head to "educate airmen about [the] local deer population." At the time of the report, none of the employees who bought those items had been disciplined.

The amount spent with such credit cards...