By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Five senior FBI officials who attended a Los Angeles Dodgers playoff following a security briefing violated the bureau’s gift policies, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General concluded.
The officials took up an offer to watch the game after the meeting had ended on October 15, 2018, The Hill reports.
“The officials held an executive management meeting at the table, discussed sensitive law enforcement information during the executive management meeting, and ate food from a buffet in the club that had a market value of more than $60 per person,” the OIG said in a statement on Wednesday.
“We found that two of the five FBI senior officials were primarily responsible for these violations. The OIG additionally concluded that one of the FBI senior officials violated FBI policy by consuming alcohol while on duty at the sporting event,” the watchdog added.
A more senior official who was found to be “primarily responsible” for the violations has been reassigned.
At the time, the FBI was investigating whether the team had bribed foreign officials in an attempt to smuggle players from Cuba.
