Last December, CREW released a blockbuster report, Homeland Security for Sale - DHS: Five Years of Mismanagement, detailing massive failures and billions wasted at the Department of Homeland Security. The waste and abuse never seems to end at DHS. A new report from the DHS Inspector General will show how "millions of dollars" were misspent from selling used trailers.
The Associated Press broke the story:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency misspent millions of dollars it received from selling used travel trailers, government investigators have found.
Instead of buying more trailers - as allowed under the law - FEMA used more than $13 million toward fully loaded sport utility vehicles, travel expenses and purchase card accounts, according to a draft report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general obtained by The Associated Press. The report is to be released Friday.
During its three-month review last summer, the inspector general found that FEMA used some of the proceeds from trailer sales for tree-removal services, agency decals and banners and global positioning systems. FEMA spokesman James McIntyre said the agency discovered these problems on its own and has taken steps to fix them.