[Info-vax] : Re: On/off topic

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10-08-2010 08:29, AEF wrote:
> On Aug 9, 9:16 pm, Arne Vajhøj<a... at vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>> On 09-08-2010 21:12, Art Wiens wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe I'm just real naive, but say your making $30M a year (~ $1,150,000
>>> bi-weekly ... maybe take home is around $1M), why on earth do you need
>>> to submit false/exagerated expenses? Hell, at that scale, why do you
>>> even need to submit expenses at all? He went down for reportedly about
>>> $20K of bad claims? He probably has that much in his coin dish!
>>
>> It is not the amount but the principle that matters.
>>
>> Regarding why he did it, then one explanation could be that
>> he did not want his wife to see the charges on his personal
>> credit card.
>
> If it were for $50, I don't think anyone would care.

In those circles $20K is probably the equivalent of $50 for
ordinary people.

And I think they do distinguish more between those
that don't make false expense reports and those that
do than the size of the amount.

Arne