Friday, February 20, 2004
How bad does it have to get before it is criminal?
Ross (mate of Helen) Armstrong has been given the wet bus ticket by the Select Committee, and they only swung it lightly. If this was the private sector he would be toast. From Stuff;
After Dr Armstrong left the three companies it was revealed he had in three years received $584,365 in fees, $292,407 in expenses, dispensed $145,874 of taxpayer funded hospitality, ran up $43,829 in miscellaneous expenses and accumulated a bill of $248,884 for professional services he directly hired.
Dr Armstrong had to repay $10,000 in expenses he had claimed from more than one organisation.
I don't think this one is going to go away as quietly as Hells might like.
