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Lego in a government fraud article
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Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:01:35 GMT
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I was doing my daily scan of news stories when I came across the following article:

“Government Credit Card Abuses Detailed”

So I took a read. Lo and behold, in the bottom, look what I found:

In another instance $200 of LEGO toy robots were bought to “teach Navy engineers about robotics” while the excuse for buying a $250 Louis Vuitton designer folio was simply listed as “personal preference.

I think that is too funny. Military people busted for trying to get some play toys for free.

Here’s the link to the entire story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4853411/



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  Re: Lego in a government fraud article
 
(...) And only because they didn't do anything work-related with them. If they would really have used them in teaching their engineers that would have been perfectly ok. The full report is at (URL) : "We identified four Lego Mindstorm computer robot (...) (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego in a government fraud article
 
(...) This story was in the UK Metro newspaper on Thursday 29th as well Tim (20 years ago, 30-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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