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Intensified scrutiny Public scrutiny of airport directors nationwide has intensified in recent years, following media reports of lavish spending on trips to exotic destinations, pricey hotels and meals. The former director of Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport was convicted on criminal theft charges this summer after state auditors tallied $500,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 in questionable expenses incurred by him and other top airport officials,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including Broadway tickets, shotguns, video game systems and cigars.
In Indianapolis, the airport director there was recently criticized for spending four of 15 months on the road, visiting cities in England and Malaysia on the airport’s dime. Just last week it was reported that the director of Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas has reimbursed the airport $3,000 for expenses he had claimed were business related and has publicly apologized for authorizing a $40,000 payment to his son’s school for a football field advertisement promoting the airport’s website.
None of Damelio’s business expenses appear so extravagant or out of place �D except for the tobacco. Records show he takes about 15 business trips a year, mostly to New York City, Boston and Washington, and the bulk of his expenses are for hotels and meals. But during a two-day junket to Boston and New York City in March 2009, Damelio charged the airport credit card $612 for six visits to four different cigar establishments. One was Cigar Masters in Boston, a lounge that sells beer, wine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cheese and crackers.
The others were smoke shops. He has on many occasions spent hundreds of dollars at pricey restaurants and has charged nearly $5,000 in private car services. Several of the transportation costs lacked receipts. On the same March 2009 trip, the credit card statements showed charges of $977 at Morton’s of Chicago in Boston, $326 on chauffeurs in Boston, and $411 at a New York City steakhouse. Records show the Airport Authority has paid for food for holiday and retirement parties �D expenditures for which other authorities have been criticized by state auditors �D but they were not incurred by Damelio.
The authority typically budgets $50,000 a year for travel and business-related expenses. By contrast, Albany International Airport budgeted just $15,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 this year, according to a spokesman. A Syracuse Hancock International Airport spokeswoman said travel expenses last year totaled $10,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],255, and that airport personnel take up to 15 trips per year, most of them day trips by car. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the airport also employs a consulting firm that entertains and solicits business from airline and travel executives. Three officials with Buffalo Niagara International Airport spent $25,090 on travel through the first six months of the current fiscal year, according to that airport. The airport also employs a consultant at up to $100,000 a year.