Blue Shield cites extravagant spending by fired executive

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Blue Shield of California fired a top executive last month after he spent more than $100,000 on his corporate credit card, the company says, including on trips with girlfriend and "Sharknado" actress Tara Reid.

The details surfaced in a countersuit the health insurance giant filed Tuesday alleging fraud by Aaron Kaufman, the company's former chief technology officer.

Blue Shield cited numerous examples of Kaufman's extravagant spending, some of which came to light after an employee event involving Reid at a San Francisco bowling alley. Some of the expenses cited by Blue Shield included $17,491 that Kaufman spent on a Florida vacation to see Reid.

He also spent $832 for one night at the W hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with Reid on Jan. 21, according to the company. Three weeks later, he ran up a corporate tab of $1,382 on drinks at the Warwick, a Hollywood nightclub.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-blue-shield-sharknado-20150425-story.html

[Thinkingabout]

1. Thanks for firing this guy, just as the representative from Illinois is resigning, we

have to realize some people just can not handle having "money" at their disposal. He should have been making enough money on his own to have afforded these expenses.

[PoliticAverse]

2. He apparently jumped the sharknado. n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

3. BC in AL recently doubled salaries of its top executives ...

hope they see this article.

[djean111]

4. I thought I was going to read that he was authorizing payment of claims.