Mary Landrieu internal investigation finds $33,700 in improperly charged flights

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Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu on Friday released the findings of an internal investigation into her travel that found more than $33,700 in campaign flights were charged to her Senate account.

The report found 136 campaign functions were conducted during 43 trips paid for by the Senate office.

Landrieu said in a release she reported the errors to the Senate Ethics Committee and fully repaid the Treasury with campaign funds.

"The review I ordered last month found these mistakes stemming from sloppy book keeping. I take full responsibility. They should have never happened, and I apologize for this," Landrieu said. "A new system has been established that has been successfully used by a number of senate offices to provide a safeguard from this happening in the future."

Read more: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/mary_landrieu_internal_investi.html

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Times-Picayune columnist James Varney has called on federal prosecutors to investigate.

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. Issa is going to have a heyday

[Fearless]

2. If it was a republican it would've been covered up.

[DonCoquixote]

3. Mary is the sort of Blue Dog

That we got into office, only to have them backstab us. Remember how she tried to hold up Obama unless he let BOP drill again?

This lady has bent over backwards to please Oil, only to have them slam the door in her face whenever disaster hits.

We truly need to form a progressive pac and make viable challengers to Blue Dogs, or else the only choices will be between Blue Dogs and GOP frogs...

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

4. To challenge a Blue Dog...

is almost certain to result in a Republican being elected. Landrieu is not perfect, but she is head and shoulders above any Louisiana Republican that I can think of.

[cosmicone]

5. +1

At least she is on the right side of a lot of progressive issues.

[Psephos]

6. This.

Politics is an art of the possible, not the perfect.

[Hubert Flottz]

7. They need to check out dirty Dave Vitter's

infantile unterhosen story and just leave Blue Mary TF, alone! At least she's something BLUE! And at least God should be able to forgive Mary if they forgave Davy's Washington dalliance sessions, on the taxpayer's tab. Vitter was calling the "Call Girls" from inside our US Capitol Senate Chamber floor when he was supposed to be doing the taxpayers work. Dave couldn't work the grueling full day's "work" in the senate, without setting up his quickie breaks, on our time. I mean poor old Dave works three days a week six hours a day for about three months a year and he needs to unwind, while he's getting his watch wound.

The gag at a gnat right wingers, will pounce on Mary about this. It's sad.

[wordpix]

8. how much have Issa's fake investigations cost US taxpayers?

and that jerk does not pay it back