Covert cop-out on pay-outs, stakeouts and take-outs

BURGERS and chips for stakeouts, pay-offs for snitches and wages for our man in Moscow are just a few of the potential destinations of taxpayers’ money allocated to the Secret Service.

Covert cop-out on pay-outs, stakeouts and take-outs

The moulah dished out to Seamus Bond and his spook pals came in for some overt not covert investigation yesterday, but no new information really came to light.

The 392,000 spent by the Secret Service in 2003 has been accounted for and audited, yet not even the State's top finance administrator knows how or where it was spent.

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