The U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) headquarters improperly used government purchasing cards to buy pens, coins, televisions, ATVs and a $3,147 door, an Defense Department Inspector General report said this week.The Inspector General report reviewed 6,934 purchase card transactions between July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009 worth a total of $7.9 million. A sampling of 120 of those transactions found 10 which were inappropriate. Another 8 of the 120 transactions sampled, valued at $38,081, were “purchases of sensitive or pilferable materials that program personnel should have recorded in property record systems.”
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