When asked any question by the committee, including what his title with the GSA is, Neely responded, "On the advice of my counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege."
Separately, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure revealed that the GSA's "Hats Off" award program had been abused to give federal employees hundreds of thousands of dollars in iPods, gift cards and promotional items. The program, which would allow employees to give credits to one another for good work and redeem them for GSA-logoed items, had been used to work around a $99 per-employee limit set by the agency.
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