the firing. and paul prouty, one of the legs he had to stand on because of a conflict he wasn t able to attend. mr. nealy, probably the biggest household name if there is one out of this scandal, lives in california. they tried, gsa tried to fire him. through an arrangement with his lawyer, i don t know the details, he was allowed to he retire which was a pretty sweet deal for him. it means he was able to collect his full pension, and it means he wasn t fired from the government. now, we reached out to the folks here at gsa to find out what they had to say about it, they re not happy and issued this statement saying, quote, we are disappointed with the merit system protection board drilling on this personnel matter and exploring all of our available options including appeal. gsa has taken strong actions against the officials we believe were responsible and will continue to do so where appropriate and finally, greta, we reached out to
the firing. and paul prouty, one of the legs he had to stand on because of a conflict he wasn t able to attend. mr. nealy, probably the biggest household name if there is one out of this scandal, lives in california. they tried, gsa tried to fire him. through an arrangement with his lawyer, i don t know the details, he was allowed to he retire which was a pretty sweet deal for him. it means he was able to collect his full pension, and it means he wasn t fired from the government. now, we reached out to the folks here at gsa to find out what they had to say about it, they re not happy and issued this statement saying, quote, we are disappointed with the merit system protection board drilling on this personnel matter and exploring all of our available options including appeal. gsa has taken strong actions against the officials we believe were responsible and will continue to do so where appropriate and finally, greta, we reached out to
0 this matter to determine whether all appropriate laws were followed and take any reimmedia reimmediateive actions or other action that might be required. let not your heart be troubled. greta greta is standing by to go on the record and we ll see you back here tomorrow night. greta: tonight, this will send you into orbit. the irs paying thousands of your tax dollars on star trek. you have to see this to believe it. seeing the voyage of the starship enterprise. never ending mission to force changes, to boldly go where no government employee has gone before. the irs under fire for this training video that parodies star trek, costing tens of thousands of dollars. serve you coffee while you race. cbs, idiotic, stupid, take that show and shove it. we apologize to veterans. we didn t see this coming. there s no harm in saying, you re screwed up. greta: all that and more straight ahead. first, what s going on at the irs, who gave them permission to use our taxpayer money
0 commissioner didn t you call him on the carpet? he s giving excuses and i read your he s giving excuses to you. it s not him taking responsibility, digging in for the taxpayers and doing something. yes, it s been that way and it s a mistake. he s in charge and actually ridiculous expenses, and it s cost us 4 million dollars a year, whether he started it it or not. it still exists and we re paying it. well, greta, what really outrages me, they re come to my subcommittee multiple times claiming they need more resources and they cannot do the job they re tasked with, providing taxpayer service and enforcement and the fact of the matter is, they asked for resources and yet, they do this? and we re going to look at every bit of what the irs is doing. my subcommittee is going to go full all-out into thorough investigation of all of their operatings. and we ve got to do this for the sake of the taxpayer and i don t want to hear more talk about needing more resources at a time when we re r
when i m commissioner oh, oh where we going to go? they re humming a very different tune in this powerful republican congressman s office. we ve helped uncover incredible abuse of bonuses dig further. this is very revealing. it s not just prouty s bonus that shocked house transportation and infrastructure chairman john mica, it s that in may we reported on this 2011 office and personnel management database obtained by wusa9 s sister publication the asbury park press. in it the gsa reported out paying just over $13 million in bonuses. however, we uncovered more than $30 million in bonuses they did not release thus bringing the actual total of gsa bonuses in 2011 to more than $43 million. now we can see why they didn t want to give us the details. you ve helped uncover incredible abuse of a bonus system. our analysis shows 2,500 gsa employees got bonuses in inning bonuses in increments of $5,000 or more, $79,000 or more to deputy commissioner jon jordan but only