THIS TOP OBAMA APPOINTEE LIVED HIGH ON THE HOG AND YOU PAID FOR IT: Stefan Selig started a senior position as an Obama political appointee at the Department of Commerce in November 2013. In the following weeks, here’s a few of the ways he spent tax dollars, according to the Inspector General:

• $1,150 per night at a luxury hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, where the approved per-diem rate is $350.
• $1,800 for rides in a luxury SUV during a two-day trip to Boston.
• $50,000 for changes to his D.C. office suite, 10 times the $5,000 office renovation stipend federal law grants political appointees (the carpet alone cost $10,000).
• $270 per night at a Memphis, Tennessee hotel, 240 percent higher than the standard per-diem rate.
• $450 for a luxury hotel in New York City, 230 percent higher than the standard per-diem rate.

The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Katie Watson reports the IG began looking into Selig’s spending after getting a confidential tip sometime in 2015. But in its report made public this week, the IG said nothing about recommending prosecution. Stay tuned for what happens next week when Watson starts asking questions folks at the Commerce Department probably aren’t going to want to answer.