The French media chief and her €40,000 taxi bills...

A French media boss is the latest exec to come under fire in France over her spending of public money after it was revealed that she had racked up €40,000 worth of taxi bills in just 10 months, including nearly €7,000 for her son. All from tax payers money of course.

French media execs continue to give themselves a bad name over their apparently frivolous spending of tax payers money.

First it was the €100,000 office makeover for the head of French public radio, now it’s the mammoth €40,000 worth of taxi invoices built up by Agnès Saal, the head of France’s National Audiovisual Institute (INA), which was founded in 1975 to safeguard all TV and radio archives.

French newspaper Le Figaro reported at the weekend that Saal had built up the huge bill over just a ten-month period.

The revelation was apparently sent to the Institute’s directors in an anonymous letter just in time for the organization’s annual board meeting last week. Full story...

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