The Hill-

Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.

The revelations of unethical behavior at Treasury are detailed in little-noticed documents posted this month on governmentattic.org, which publishes agency responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

While it is not uncommon for departments within the executive branch to have personnel issues, it is unusual for these types of documents to become public. They provide a rare glimpse of internal probes within the Treasury Department, exposing different episodes of misconduct.

Investigators at the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), which responds to tips and official referrals from within the department, found that employees had engaged in unethical, and perhaps criminal, conduct.

[THE HILL]

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EXPLICIT LYRICS BELOW BUT FUNNY:

You pick up this working girl hooked on smack, hustles and scores. “That’s all I do” she says, she says “Ten bucks for head, fifteen for half-and-half”. She says “Three hits a day at 35 per”, you say “that’s seven tricks a day at least”, but she says “sometimes I get lucky. Once this guy gives me a bill-and-half just to eat me, only time I ever came”.

You figure you can save her.

You sell your color TV, that keeps her off the streets a whole day. You hock your typewriter for one jolt. Then your shotgun, your watch. A week later you say “Listen I’m a little short”, but she says “No scratch, no snatch”. You say “Look it is better to give”, but she says “Beat off creep”.

One night they spot you on the street in your skivvies trying to sell your shoes. You tell them who you are, but they nail you. Then she happens by and she says “Christ you look fucked”, she says “Hang tough!”. But you don’t say anything, you just think “what a bum rap for a nice, sensitive guy like me…”

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