In an investigation conducted by New York Post reporters Tom Corrigan and Susan Elelman found that the City of New York payed out more than $5.7 million in dinning fees with your tax dollars.

“While most New Yorkers brown-bag it or buy their own sandwiches, a Post review of records found that municipal employees don’t always dig into their own pockets.

With few exceptions, city workers are not allowed to expense their meals. But the Post probe found hundreds of unexplained tabs, from a few bucks up to $25.

The city Department of Education was at the top of the food chain — with workers spending $1.5 million on meals hidden under the obscure category “non-overnight travel expenses.”

The review of city comptroller data found:
* The City Council kept from nodding off by quaffing $5,256 worth of coffee on the taxpayer tab.
* Under the category of “instruction and school leadership,” the staff at MS 385 sank $2,000 into the Brooklyn’s Fish Eye Bar & Grill.”

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