WASHINGTON -- First there were misused Pentagon credit cards. Now come misused phones. Investigators say the Navy routinely paid exorbitant telephone bills, wasted calling plan minutes and couldn't identify who made credit card calls that in some cases lasted for days.
The Navy's management of phone cards and long-distance plans "creates a fertile environment for fraud, waste and abuse," the General Accounting Office said in an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press.
The phone problems are the latest revelations to concern members of Congress, who already have heard horror stories about Pentagon employees using government credit cards to make personal purchases at hardware, electronic and lingerie stores, even strip clubs.
The Navy is wasting valuable telephone money while "families are forced to send their sons and daughters deployed around the world calling cards to phone home," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., who requested the investigation of Navy phone expenses.
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