IRS Hired For Millions The Same Canadian Company That Botched The Obamacare Website

Here's one for the WTH file.

Remember the Canadian company CGI Federal that messed up, big time, HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare website? They were eventually fired, with good reason, but apparently the IRS has now hired the IT company for the Obamacare tax program for a whopping $4.46 million!

CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into the public’s mind as the company behind the bungled Obamacare main website.

After facing a year of embarrassing failures, federal officials finally pulled the plug on the company and terminated CGI’s contract in January 2014.

Yet on Aug. 11, seven months later, IRS officials signed a new contract with CGI to provide “critical functions” and “management support” for its Obamacare tax program, according to the Federal Procurement Data System, a federal government procurement database.

The rest on Daily Caller, which lists all the various failures with the HealthCare.gov website.

And what are we doing hiring a Canadian company? No offense to my Canuck buddies, but don't we have a competent IT company that can handle the job?

Busted- Porn and Nerf Footballs Charged To IRS Expense Accounts

After all the controversy regarding targeting certain pro-Jewish and conservative groups, and wasting $50 million on conferences, the IRS has been busted, once again, for allegedly letting employees charge things like porn, stove top hats, Nerf footballs, and popcorn machines to their official IRS distributed credit cards. Which means, we paid for all of that.

 A new report by the Treasury's inspector general for tax administration looking at spending over two financial years says that although "the majority of IRS cardholders appear to use their purchase cards properly," a small number of employees made "inappropriate" charges. "Inappropriate" as in the cards of two employees—one who is still with the IRS—were used to pay for online porn, reports NBC News. (In fairness, both employees reported their cards missing or compromised, though one reported five cards as lost.)

One woman racked up $2,655 on things like diet pills, romance novels, steaks, and a smartphone, which were then filed as "reference books and office supplies." Other questionable spending identified in the report: a government luncheon where 41 guests drank 28 bottles of wine; and $4,000 in items intended for team-building and morale, such as Thomas the Tank Engine wristbands, kazoos, and the "world’s largest crossword puzzle." The inspector general has made 11 recommendations to increase oversight of the program.

Okay, so it's only two, and their cards might have been compromised, I know several of my credit cards have been, but five lost cards?  Come on.

IRS Wastes $50 Million On Conferences, Including A Lame Star Trek Parody

More controversy re. the IRS.  An audit of the agency that audits taxpayers discovered that the IRS spent approximately $50 million from 2010 to 2012 on perks for employees, including baseball tickets, and over 200 conferences.

A government watchdog's look at the scandal-hit agency's books found that it spent around $50 million on more than 200 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012, according to the House Oversight Committee. The spending included baseball tickets, $135,000 in fees for 15 outside speakers (among them: $17,000 paid for a talk on "leadership through art"), and videos showing IRS employees taking line-dancing lessons and acting in a Star Trek parody, the AP reports.

The two videos were part of a $4 million conference in Anaheim, California, the Star Trek parody alone cost $60,000 to produce.  They didn't even bother to negotiate lower room rates, and some lucky ones- out of the 2,600 people in attendance- got to stay in $3,500 per night presidential suites.

According to acting IRS chief Daniel Werfel things have changed since then.

Watch the video of those IRS folk learning line-dancing courtesy of taxpayer money.  And the pitiful Star Trek Parody.

Source: Newser