answer. greta: after this got out, martha johnson resigned in disgrace. two top aides were fired and 10 others were placed on leave. the inspector general called the conference excessive and wasteful. one huge question remain it s why did it take 11 months for that i.g. report to be publishd? if you think the gsa is alone in waste philadelphia ending of your money, you are dead wrong this. culture of waste, fraud and at times, crime, is pandemic, it s i.c.e., bscc, noaa and more. after a grilling, appalling debails on how your money was spent. what s the white house response? a half million dollar conference cap and be careful stewards of taxpayer funds. that s the answer? we are digging deeper to uncover how things got so out of control. welcome to our on the record special government gone wild. over the hour, you will hear from scott brown who says that
that really send the deficit out of control. but it is hard to control them if you don t control the smaller stuff. if you have these gsa conferences, if you have these magicians and all of this waste. you propose to raise taxes, people say not a penny more until they stop wasting all of that money. reporter: will this be a part of the 2012 election coverage? will people be talking about this, the closer we get to in november? mitt romney has devoted this entire week to spending and the deficit and out-of-control spending. by that, he means not just the big entitlements, he means not just spending more on defense spending, he means not just interest on the debt, he means the smaller stuff. he will talk about solyndra. you will hear him talking about that. you will hear him talking about wasteful spending on conferences and parties. this is going to be a theme, at least from the republican side of this presidential race, all the way through november. reporter: who benefits?
well, fail tower do your job is certainly something that congress should be held accountable because we have failed to do our job of keeping after this ever growing bureaucracy, which is our responsibility. we shouldn t fund it and forget. but senator coburn and myself are working on modernization, we call the data act. getting the kind of reporting that would know only allow us to look better into government, but allow the public to see it. the expenses should be transparent to the public. everyone in america should be able to to know what happened in las vegas, how many people were there and how much money was spent. you have a right to know. we have a need to know. can we get both of those in a way, essentially like a google search, you would be able to find out. that s what senator coburn has been working on for years. we think the time has come to order that, to make the administration more transparent, not because of this president but because of every president.
i can t spend that for breakfast the rest of america would never conceive of a $7 monte cristo mini sandwich, neither would you. $822,000 spent in las vegas by the gsa should be a farewell party. greta: the general services administration throwing a lavish conference with an $822,000 price tag, with sushi dinner, clown, mind readers and the workers are laughing as you as they were taking this money right out of your pocket. the man who planned this over-the-top conference, jeff neely, was caught relaxing as if on a five-star vacation on so-called scouting trip, all on your dime. congress tried to ask him about the absurd spending, he clammed up and pled the fifth. i respectfully decline to
shredding party, where somebody was being investigated, actually shredded 70% of the documents. the lack of us requesting documents to verify a lot of things that were in effect, being done. a complete lack of trust between the fishermen and noaa with the science associated with determining what fish stocks can be fished and what fish stocks can t be fished. you talk about the finds. three, four, five times higher fining for massachusetts fishermen than anywhere else in the country. that money went to buy a party boat, a $300,000 yacht where they went out and partied. reporter: officials at noaa? officials at noaa. they had more vehicles than employees. they didn t go through the appropriate process to actually work to in fact get the vehicles. so there is a systemic lack of accountability. really, i have called for a