The head of the U.S. General Services Administration, Martha Johnson, resigned on April 2 and earlier removed two other senior GSA officials from their jobs as an inspector general’s report blasting the agency for “excessive and wasteful” spending and failing to follow federal contracting rules on a 2010 conference whose price tag exceeded $822,000

The Washington Post reported that Robert A. Peck, head of the Public Buildings Service and "a fixture in the Washington area real estate community" was forced out, along with Johnson’s top adviser, Stephen Leeds.

Four GSA managers who organized the four-day conference in October 2010 were put on adminstrative leave, the paper said officials told it.