Hooker Hill Visit Helps Lead to Army General Losing Two Ranks
This is what happens when you use your government credit card to pay a $1,100 bill at a Hooker Hill club in Seoul:
One of the Army’s most promising generals will be demoted to one star and retired following a scandal that involved sex clubs in Seoul and Rome, high-priced booze and indiscretions with young female troops, the Army announced Thursday.
Ron Lewis, who had been a three-star general and top aide to the then-Defense secretary Ash Carter, will also lose about $10,000 a year in pension payments due to the demotion.
The Pentagon Inspector General “substantiated allegations that Maj. Gen. Lewis misused his government travel charge card for personal expenses, made false official statements regarding his (credit card) misuse, and engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman on multiple occasions,” Cynthia Smith, an Army spokeswoman, said in a statement. (……)
Army investigators found that Lewis spent more than $1,100 in April 2015 during a visit to the “Candy Bar” in Seoul. The bar, in the city’s red-light district known as “Hooker Hill,” had been deemed off limits to troops. When questioned about the charge, Lewis denied it was his, the Pentagon challenged the expense and got him a new card. [Stars & Stripes]
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Idiot! They tell you when they give you that government credit card that its use will be monitored for official use only. I have to think that the guy thought he had enough left on his personal credit card to cover the “expenses” he had racked up but found out otherwise and panicked and in his drunken state thought he could get away with it somehow because he was a general. Officer delusion!