The Defense Department’s end-of-year spending spree included over $60k on Herman Miller chairs

During an end-of-the-fiscal-year spending spree last year, the Department of Defense (DoD) dropped some dough on new Herman Miller furniture.

The DoD spent $60,719 for chairs from the Michigan furniture manufacturer last September, according to the report from the watchdog group Open The Books, including at least one $1,844 Aeron Chair, the brand’s popular, ergonomic, fabric-meshed office chair.

The Herman Miller purchases were just a small fraction of the record $93 billion detailed in the report...