Defrauded: Millions of Your Tax Dollars

David Kerley

ABC News

Talk about eating at the government trough. Some $13,000 of your tax money was spent on steak, crab and 40 bottles of wine at one high-end steakhouse chain for 81 postal service workers--a $160 per person meal--and it was all charged to government purchase cards. 

That may be abuse, but this is fraud: A National Science Foundation worker used her card to spend $1,800 for manicures and cosmetics at a nail salon chain.

"If you don't watch the pennies, they become millions, and if you don't watch the hundreds and thousands, they become billions," Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said.


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