Marines Rack Up Parking Tickets

The city of White Plains, N.Y., is not happy with the Marine Corps -- specifically, with Marine recruiters who have racked up more than $90,000 in unpaid parking tickets dating back to 2001. Now, the Journal-News reports, the city's parking commissioner, Albert Moroni, has impounded one of the Marine recruiters' cars and is threatening to sell it at auction if the service doesn't pay its fines. Moroni worked with the General Services Administration to determine exactly which federal organizations were responsible for serial parking violations in the city. And it turned out that the Marines do seem to have a problem. On the list of scofflaws, vehicles with diplomatic plates were a distant second to the Marines, with $5,910 in unpaid tickets, followed by Army recruiters, with $3,575 in pending fines.

Still, GSA has apparently warned Moroni that if he follows through on his threat to sell off a federal vehicle, he might receive a visit from the FBI.