Sailors used government credit to pay for gambling, prostitutes

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Navy personnel used government credit cards to hire prostitutes at brothels, buy jewelry, gamble and attend New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers games in fraudulent purchases exceeding $200,000, congressional investigators have found.

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