one day conference, quarter of a million dollars. $104,000 to a consultant for one day. $20,000 spent on drumsticks. now there are 35,000 on picture frames. we think unfortunately they re dribbling this information out. first we saw las vegas. then we saw virginia. and now we re told there may be as many as more than 70 conferences we re going to have to look at. rick: talk to us about your investigators and the kind of cooperation they re getting from folks at the gsa. of course we ve been talking about the investigation into the fast and furious program. we know that the cooperation there, the back and forth there has not been great between the justice department and the congressional investigators. have your investigators been able to get access to the information that they want to see in order to find out exactly what was going on? well the cooperation, now, remember we got rid of some of the people that were involved like neely and the
21st century kum ba yah. bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. it s costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? i guess it s supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, let s all get together, you know, type of, yeah. motivational stuff? who knows? i can t answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? yeah. $28,000, little over, for 4,000 time temperature picture frames. you know those picture frames that are supposed to be commemorative and they have the time and temperature for their little attendees. $41,000 for travel. for 49 attendees. bill: it s the same con they pulled in vegas. it s the same stuff. i mean, this banging of the drum thing, i mean, all right. so now if you combine the two. that s about a million .2.
bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. it s costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? i guess it s supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, let s all get together, you know, type of, yeah. motivational stuff? who knows? i can t answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? yeah. $28,000, little over, for 4,000 time temperature picture frames. you know those picture frames that are supposed to be commemorative and they have the time and temperature for their little attendees. $41,000 for travel. for 49 attendees. bill: it s the same con they pulled in vegas. it s the same stuff. i mean, this banging of the drum thing, i mean, all right. so now if you combine the two. that s about a million .2.
bill: this was a general services congratulation. they are having a conference. it s costing the taxpayer $300,000. why do they have this stuff? for what? i guess it s supposed to be some sort of like kum ba yah, let s all get together, you know, type of, yeah. motivational stuff? who knows? i can t answer that question. all i know is that they spent a fortune of taxpayer money. can i just tell you a couple things they spent money on, william? yeah. $28,000, little over, for 4,000 time temperature picture frames. you know those picture frames that are supposed to be commemorative and they have the time and temperature for their little attendees. $41,000 for travel. for 49 attendees. bill: it s the same con they pulled in vegas. it s the same stuff. i mean, this banging of the drum thing, i mean, all right. so now if you combine the two. that s about a million .2.
bill: so, sir, when does your hearing begin? also, well, you re looking at whether or not federal land can be managed and administered by private companies instead of the federal government. how would that work? well, the question i ve been asking, i mean this has been such a abuse of the civil and abuse of the taxpayer dollars. the question i ve been asking is, can we billionish gsa all together? show me why you have to be in existence? show me how you are saving money for the taxpayers. and show the leasing is better than private industry. the real test is showing local realtors and local communities can do a better job leasing and selling property than the government. bill: $35,000 for picture frames. i don t know what was framed in the picture but we ll find out. do you believe the conference will happen after the hear something conducted early august? i think there are conferences like this happening across government. even with the president s executive order, unless we inves