An audit associated with the Pentagon has revealed that revelry is apparently part of the culture in America’s Defense Department head office.

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

An internal Defense Department audit, soon to be published, discovered that both military and civilian employees had been accountable of utilizing the credit cards at casinos, as well as for procuring the services of ‘escort agencies’ in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

These employees presumably preferred to make use of work that is official instead than individual ones so as to hide the illicit transactions from spouses and significant other people. What could go wrong?

A Pentagon official emphasized to Politico.com, However, that the national government didn’t (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 the part of the bill, the official said.

Sex Sells, But Did the Pentagon Reimburse for It?

However, the likelihood is that the Pentagon has, at some time, unwittingly covered sex, since well as stumping up the money for the odd lousy blackjack session or two.

In fact, it is estimated that forbidden credit card transactions cost the us government hundreds of millions of dollars every year. A written report by the federal Government Accountability Office recently found that ‘abuse of government issued credit cards was a challenge that is growing recent years.’

Senator Chuck Grassley [R-Iowa], who introduced the Government credit Card Abuse Prevention Act in 2012, said this week which he had been alarmed during the revelations, but hoped that his legislative efforts had paved the method for the internal review.

‘I’m interested to understand report and discover more about what is being done, right and incorrect, at DoD to avoid punishment,’ he stated. ‘What I hope is my reforms that became law have been implemented well and that agencies and auditors are utilizing the reforms to get problems.

‘The law requires audits that is periodic inspectors general, such as this one, specifically to carry on top of credit card abuse and hold agencies accountable for implementing the necessary internal controls.’

Crooked Admiral

The state whom talked to Politico.com stressed that the audit was a broad review of credit card deals, compared to your behavior of individuals, therefore no jobs were on the line at this time. It’s more likely that certain departments, where behavior that is such most prevalent, will merely be given a stern talking to.

Needless to say, this is not the first, or likely the last, time that top brass that is military had their wrists slapped for inappropriate gambling shenanigans. This past 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 person of his local casinos from which he’d not already been barred, the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Giardina initially told police he had purchased the chips from a man in the restroom, before revising his account for the incident in a military court, saying he previously merely ‘found’ them in a stall into the restrooms. But a DNA test suggested he may have actually produced the potato chips himself ‘using stickers and glue.’