• Mnuchin requested Air Force jet to take him and wife on honeymoon
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[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-requested-government-jet-european-honeymoon/story?id=49777076[/url] [quote] Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested use of a government jet to take him and his wife on their honeymoon in Scotland, France and Italy earlier this summer, sparking an “inquiry” by the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General, sources tell ABC News. Officials familiar with the matter say the highly unusual ask for a U.S. Air Force jet, which according to an Air Force spokesman could cost roughly $25,000 per hour to operate, was put in writing by the secretary's office but eventually deemed unnecessary after further consideration of by Treasury Department officials. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview with ABC News that Mnuchin's request for a government jet on his honeymoon defies common sense. "You don't need a giant rulebook of government requirements to just say yourself, 'This is common sense, it's wrong,'" Wyden said. "That's just slap your forehead stuff." Mnuchin, an independently wealthy former Goldman Sachs banker, has already triggered a review of his travel for using government jet to travel to Louisville and Fort Knox, Kentucky last month. The inspector general is reviewing whether he improperly used that trip to catch a prime view of the solar eclipse with his wife, a Scottish actress and model named Louise Linton. [/quote]
[quote]but eventually deemed unnecessary after further consideration of by Treasury Department officials.[/quote] Any consideration further than 'fuck off, you plonker' was too much.
I'm not surprised. This is the same guy who used a government plane to see the eclipse, and whose wife made a super condescending comment to someone on Instagram about it. [media]https://twitter.com/margarita/status/899806489686179840[/media]
Not surprising. Once a fat cat Goldman Sachs crook, always a fat cat Goldman Sachs crook. I hope they continue to keep an eye on this guy. Blatant waste of taxpayers' money to pamper himself and his wife with these lavish expenses is reprehensible.
[QUOTE]Mnuchin, an independently wealthy former Goldman Sachs banker, [/QUOTE] Hey Mnuchin, pay for your own goddamn charter plane. The Air Force isn't your chauffeur. Man, this swamp seems to be getting bigger all the time. What was Trump's slogan? Train the swamp? No... Brain the swamp? Hm, no... I'll get this, just give me a second...
Stories like this get me absolutely livid. Thank God there was someone with enough sense in the department to shoot this down, no pun intended.
[QUOTE=Chonch;52681175]Stories like this get me absolutely livid. Thank God there was someone with enough sense in the department to shoot this down.[/QUOTE] Jesus christ they didn't go that far, they just told him no!
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;52681114]Hey Mnuchin, pay for your own goddamn charter plane. The Air Force isn't your chauffeur. Man, this swamp seems to be getting bigger all the time. What was Trump's slogan? Train the swamp? No... Brain the swamp? Hm, no... I'll get this, just go me a second...[/QUOTE] It's "Engrain The Swamp". If the American people are completely desensitized to hilariously blatant corruption or even support it, corporate interests can win every time.
Hmmm. Just to think that a Speaker in the Australian parliament resigned after it was revealed that she took a $5,200 helicopter charter flight paid by the government.
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