Pursuit's Take
VA OIG opened an administrative investigation upon receiving allegations of wasteful expenditures related to HR conferences held in Orlando, FL, in July and August 2011. While VA reported lower estimates of conference costs to Congress, we reconstructed the costs of the two conference events to be approximately $6.1 million.
OIG uncovered numerous examples of excessive costs, and unnecessary and unsupported expenditures. In fact, OIG questioned about $762,000 as unauthorized, unnecessary, and/or wasteful expenses.