Retired Homeland Security Exec Faulted for Costly Travel, Nepotism

A year after she retired from the agency she led for 15 years, the director of the Homeland Security Department’s law enforcement training center was found to have overspent on airfare and rental vehicles while ignoring agency rules for travel planning. Connie Patrick, who headed the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers facility in Glynco, Ga., was also found to have been insensitive toward anti-nepotism policies during the hiring of her husband to an agency institute, according to a long-awaited report released last week by the DHS inspector general’s office.