article_snippet: The lavish design appointments earned Schock snickers . '
article_snippet: Schock also chartered private planes and stayed in five-star hotels.
article_snippet: And National Journal reported last week that an outside group paid for a Schock companion, Shea Ledford, to travel to India.
article_snippet: Schock's air charters included one jaunt with staffers to a Katy Perry concert, and another in 2014 that saw he bring an entourage of 20 to New York where they reportedly did little work but saw a star-studded 'Global Citizen Festival' concert.
article_snippet: That journey set taxpayers back $10,000; Schock justified That journey as a 'very legitimate trip' by noting that That journey coincided with a U.S. visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
article_snippet: Another visit to the UK saw Schock taking Ledford to several high-society meals hosted by the Prince of Wales Foundation in June 2011.
article_snippet: At the time a foundation spokeswoman told Politico that Schock had been 'a guest of a guest of the Prince of Wales Foundation, so Schock had been 'a guest of a guest of the Prince of Wales has no involvement with Wales Foundation and therefore wasn’t in any way, shape or form involved other than attending a dinner as a guest of a guest.'