(CNN) Even after he had been told not to, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long used government SUVs and drivers to shuttle him between home and work, to and from his family's North Carolina residence, and while on vacation, according to an Inspector General's investigative report released by House Democrats on Wednesday.

FEMA did not immediately respond to CNN's request to comment on the report.

The practice cost the government around $151,000, investigators estimated, and FEMA officials may have violated several federal laws, including destroying federal records and "theft of public money, property, or records."

Several officials -- whose names are redacted from the report -- told investigators that Long knew FEMA attorneys believed he did not qualify for "home-to-work transportation," but continued to use it, citing long hours of work and the need for secure communications. In several instances, drivers transported Long and his family to the airport, or picked up his children.

Long was informed that he could be driven home in certain circumstances, such as during hurricane response, but "the cost of the vehicles, drivers' salaries, and gas for the vehicles would be considered a fringe benefit that would become taxable," one FEMA official told investigators. "Long told him he could not afford that," the report reads, and Long told investigators he "is going broke and in the hole every month."

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