High Rollers Prefer Air Force Cards, GAO Finds
From Times Wire Reports
Credit cards issued to Air Force personnel were used for a down payment on a sapphire ring, a Las Vegas casino party and for mounting a deer head after a road-kill accident, congressional investigators found.
The Air Force was to blame for creating conditions that allowed the abuse, the General Accounting Office said in a report. One of every seven Air Force employees had the cards, the GAO said, and credit limits, 12 to 20 times higher than actual spending, were deemed far too high.
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