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Judges' $1 Million Maui Trip Turns Heads in Congress
By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff US senators are scrutinizing a planned Maui getaway for circuit court judges that could cost more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars, Fox News reports. Scheduled for August, the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference would allow judges, attorneys, staff, and "special guests" to stay at a Hyatt Regency resort spa with a per diem baseline of $289. Activities such as golf ...
Read more...Republicans challenge appeals court meeting in Maui
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' upcoming conference on a Hawaiian island sounds more like "a vacation than a business trip" to discuss the administration of justice, two Republican U.S. lawmakers charged on Monday. In a letter to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, Senators Charles Grassley and Jeff Sessions wrote that Congress has an obligation to guard against "waste ...
Read more...Paradise cost: Judges plan $1 million junket in Maui- VIDEO: Taxpayers paying for Hawaii trip?
Shown here are justices with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. AP On the heels of the scandal surrounding one government agency's lavish Las Vegas conference, federal judges in the western U.S. circuit are catching flak from Congress for a planned Maui getaway that could cost taxpayers more than $1 million.
Read more...GOP Blasts Million Dollar Judicial Conference in Hawaii
In a scolding letter, two Republican senators blasted the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for holding a lavish tax-payer funded judicial conference scheduled for this August in Maui, Hawaii, that “reads more like a vacation than a business trip.” “We are concerned that using the...
Read more...Judges conference in Maui scrutinized
Come August taxpayers will fund nearly 700 trips to the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa. It's all part of this year's Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference that has senators questioning coming to the Aloha State...
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