{"id":19184,"date":"2013-10-21T10:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19184"},"modified":"2013-10-21T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:39:49","slug":"federal-employees-run-up-high-tab-during-vegas-jaunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19184\/federal-employees-run-up-high-tab-during-vegas-jaunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Employees Run Up High Tab During Vegas Jaunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/article\/360684\/222\/Feds-defend-conference-trip-to-Vegas-\" target=\"_blank\">Denver news station<\/a> uncovered that six Colorado-based employees from the Office of Natural Resources Revenue spent more than $13,000 in Las Vegas \u201cto attend a fraud investigators conference in June even though a similar conference offered by the Colorado fraud investigator&#8217;s chapter was planned for Denver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal employees claimed they stuck taxpayers with the bill for their pricey Las Vegas getaway because they needed continuing education credits offered at the event. However, NBC affiliate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/news\/article\/360684\/222\/Feds-defend-conference-trip-to-Vegas-\" target=\"_blank\">9News<\/a> found that the continuing education credits could have been attained at the Colorado conference for a small fraction of the cost of the Vegas vacation.<\/p>\n<p>But what fun is staying in Colorado when you can force taxpayers to send you to Vegas?<\/p>\n<p>The cost to taxpayers skyrocketed because many of the attendees waited until the last minute to book their flights and insisted on staying in Vegas an extra day to vacation after the conference ended \u2013 all using tax dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Denver news station uncovered that six Colorado-based employees from the Office of Natural Resources Revenue spent more than $13,000 in Las Vegas \u201cto attend a fraud investigators conference in June even though a similar conference offered by the Colorado fraud investigator&#8217;s chapter was planned for Denver.\u201d The federal employees claimed they stuck taxpayers with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4333,4332,798,4331],"class_list":["post-19184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-9news","tag-conference","tag-las-vegas","tag-office-of-natural-resources-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19184\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}