[427sharpe]

I have heard a few times that people justify the $800 toilet seat by believing that it funds covert operations. Sorry, but it is not so. Covert operations both military and civilian are funded by line item disbursements in the budget that carry no description or backround in the process. Basically a lump sum paid to DHS, CIA, FBI or whatever for a specific purpose agreed to in closed committee. These funds are monitored extremely closely and every penny better be accounted for. No diversion requests here! A lot of times the $800 hammer and such are reporting errors caught by the GAO or outright fraud. This sounds like one of those, you guess which. I was surpeised by the low fine....750K??? Of course that is a lot of $ to come up with when the gov't has seized all of your assets for auction recovery! I think the Mrs. will be spending a LOT of time in the Greybar Hotel, hope she likes THAT vacation!