SIGAR: Private 'villas' and security for task force cost taxpayers $150M

By Courtney McBride / December 3, 2015 at 12:10 AM
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction is probing $150 million in spending on housing and security by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations -- the latest in a series of inquiries into the shuttered Pentagon entity. Spurred by "allegations . . . received from former TFBSO employees and others," SIGAR is investigating the task force's decision to spend $150 million on private housing and security for its personnel, rather than house them in Defense Department facilities. In...

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