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  • Seen here is one of the hundreds of snapshots posted on an internal General Services Administration website of the four-day, $823,000 affair in Las Vegas in 2010.

    Top GSA official returns to work after opulent Vegas conference

    More than a month after he was put on leave when a video surfaced showing him joking about the lavish spending at a taxpayer-funded General Services Administration (GSA) $823,000 conference in Las Vegas, a top official at the agency has quietly returned to his job.


  • A snapshot posted on an internal GSA website shows attendees at the four-day, $823,000 2010 Western Regions conference in Las Vegas participating in a poolside activity.

    Foley returns to work after joking about lavish GSA conference

    More than a month after he was put on leave when a video surfaced showing him joking about the lavish spending at a taxpayer-funded General Services Administration (GSA) $823,000 conference in Las Vegas, a top official at the agency has quietly returned to his job.


  • David Foley

    Suspended GSA executive back on the job

    More than a month after he was put on leave when a video surfaced showing him joking about the lavish spending — $823,000 — at a taxpayer-funded General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas, a top official at the agency has quietly returned to his job.


  • Robert Peck, the former public buildings service commissioner at the General Services Administration, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, before the House Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management subcommittee hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    2nd panel blasts GSA for parties, trips, bonuses

    General Services Administration witnesses came under sharp criticism from Congress for a second day on Tuesday as lawmakers expressed outrage over junkets, bonuses and parties paid for by taxpayers.


  • Philly museum brings 'Birds of America' to public

    One of the world's rarest and most valuable books is out of the vault and on public view as part of an unusual daily ritual at the nation's oldest natural history museum.


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