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FEMA Administrator Brock Long has been forced to reimburse the government for improper personal use of federal government vehicles and acknowledged "mistakes" that he and FEMA made in using those vehicles.

A DHS Inspector General investigation found there was "inappropriate use" of the vehicles, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement released Friday night.

Nielsen said she reviewed the IG report that found Long, tasked with helping the government manage the response to hurricanes and other emergencies, used government vehicles for "non-official reasons," she said in the statement.

"[U]se of Government vehicles to provide home to work transportation for the FEMA Administrator was never authorized in accordance with applicable law," she said.

POLITICO first reported last week that an IG investigation had been opened into Long's use of government Suburbans for routine weekend travel to his home in North Carolina under a government continuity program, which is designed to ensure senior officials can be reached in case of a national emergency.


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